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UBA X CELLULANT : UBA Partners With Cellulant To Expand Its Reach In 19 Markets Across Africa

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Africa’s global bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, and leading Pan-African Payments Company Cellulant have announced a partnership that will extend payment services for merchants and consumers across 19 key African countries in which UBA operates. These countries include  Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, the Republic of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Senegal.

This network represents one of the primary tools in bringing together Africa’s fragmented payments ecosystem, ensuring Cellulant’s Payment Gateway, Tingg, is available to a vast number of merchants and consumers in each of these markets.

Already over US$10bn in gross value payments are processed by Cellulant across the shared markets – and this partnership has the scope to expand the numbers significantly.

“We are delighted to welcome the United Bank for Africa as a new banking partner,” says Akshay Grover, Group CEO at Cellulant. “As the payments landscape in Africa continues to evolve, we believe that FinTech’s and banks need to have a deeper collaboration in  expanding opportunities that will help ease payments & collections for businesses and their consumers across all sectors of the economy.”

“The partnership with UBA extends our unparalleled reach across the continent and gives merchants and consumers in our shared network the opportunity to enjoy streamlined digital payments services directly through their bank.”

Speaking on the partnership, Group Deputy Managing Director, United Bank for Africa, Oliver Alawuba, said: ‘We are happy to welcome Cellulant to Nigeria for this MoU signing and most importantly into UBA’s expansive landscape. UBA is ready we are indeed set to dominate the entire digital banking space in Africa. “Our bank as you know, is one of the largest financial services institutions in Africa, providing services to over 25 million customers in 23 countries 20 of which are on the African continent. This speaks to our strength and capability in terms of delivering innovative digital solutions to the last mile”.

He continued, “As the needs of our customers change, we are consistently readapting innovative solutions and partnerships to provide them with excellent and convenient services. With our strategic partnerships, we can accelerate the drive for financial inclusion and the economic wellbeing of Africans on the continent. As a customer-focused bank, we are dedicated to ensuring first-rate customer service to all our customers as well as fashion out the best possible ways to ease the way they transact”.

Alawuba during the signing ceremony at the UBA House in Lagos noted that “Collaborating with Cellulant will allow for maximum impact when it comes to changing lives and introducing smarter ways for people to make payments in Africa”.

The announcement is the latest in a line of new partnerships for Cellulant, as it continues to expand its network with leading financial institutions like UBA. The company’s payments platform, Tingg, now available via 120 banks, is a one-stop payment aggregator for multinational corporations, mid-caps, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) alike.

‘Our partnership with UBA is an opportunity to further simplify the payment experience for businesses looking to collect payments online or offline. This is particularly impactful for businesses who face daily administrative challenges because of the industry’s fragmentation.” says David Waithaka, Chief Revenue Officer at Cellulant.

The platform enables merchants to receive, view, and reconcile all their payments via a single application programming interface (API), cutting out the need to sign up for multiple different payment providers including mobile money, mobile network operators (MNOs).

This simultaneously streamlines businesses’ administration processes while expanding the range of payment options they can offer to consumers, ensuring maximum choice and flexibility both offline and online.

“By offering a one-stop-shop payments platform through UBA across the 19 countries it is present in Africa, we are opening up the possibility for merchants to seamlessly accept payments from a huge range of payment methods (banks, mobile money, and cards), whilst managing all their back-office processes in one place. Local, regional, and global businesses can now focus on growth and expansion across Africa.”

 

About Cellulant

Cellulant is a leading pan-African payments company that provides locally relevant and alternative payment methods for global, regional, and local merchants across 35 countries. The company provides a single API payments platform that enables businesses to collect payments online and offline while allowing anyone to pay from their mobile money, local and international cards, or directly from their bank.

About UBA

United Bank for Africa Plc is a leading pan-African bank offering banking services to more than twenty-five million customers, across over 1,000 business offices and customer touchpoints, in 20 African countries and globally with operations in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and France. UBA is connecting people and businesses across Africa through retail; commercial and corporate banking; innovative cross-border payments and remittances; trade finance and ancillary banking services

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BREAKING: Presidency Confirms Sack Of Tinubu’s Aide Fegho Umunubo, Warns Nigerians Not To Interface With Him

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The Presidency has issued a stern warning to the public following the immediate dismissal of Fegho John Umunubo, who served as the Special Assistant to the President on Digital and Creative Economy in the Office of the Vice President.

Abiodun Oladunjoye, the Director of Information and Public Relations in the Presidency, confirmed the separation in a statement on Monday. He emphasized that Umunubo no longer represents the administration in any capacity.

“Stakeholders and constituents of the digital and creative economy, at home and abroad, as well as the general public, are hereby notified that Fegho John Umunubo … has been disengaged with immediate effect.”
Oladunjoye added: “Henceforth, anyone interfacing with him in the name of President Tinubu’s administration does so at his or her own risk. We urge all stakeholders and constituents of the digital and creative economy to be so guided.”

 

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Kaduna Councillor Sunusi Hashim Appoints 18 Special Advisers

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The councillor representing Kinkiba Ward in Soba Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Sunusi Hashim, has appointed 18 special advisers to support his grassroots administration.

The new aides were inaugurated on Sunday at L.E.A. Primary School, Kinkiba, during a ceremony that drew the presence of All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders, traditional rulers, religious leaders, party loyalists, and community members.

Speaking at the event, Hashim said the appointments were made in recognition of the loyalty, dedication, and contributions of the appointees to the progress of Kinkiba Ward. He urged them to serve with “respect, integrity, honesty, transparency, and compassion” while working collectively for the development of the community and the advancement of the APC.

The councillor also commended Kaduna State governor, Uba Sani, for his consistent support to local councillors, particularly through the provision of fertilisers to farmers. He pledged to align his team’s activities with the governor’s transformative agenda and deliver projects that would benefit the people of Kinkiba.

The newly appointed advisers will oversee key sectors such as works, finance, education, health, agriculture, women affairs, political matters, media, youth mobilisation, and inter-party relations.

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Peter Obi Will Not Have Our 2027 Ticket — Labour Party Secretary Arabambi

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The Labour Party (LP) has ruled out the possibility of former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, contesting on its platform in the 2027 elections.

The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Abayomi Arabambi, made the declaration on Monday while speaking on Channels Television’s Lunchtime Politics.

Arabambi criticised Obi for directing his supporters to back candidates of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) during the August by-elections, describing the move as anti-party. The former Anambra governor had explained his call was due to the absence of LP candidates in many constituencies, but the party dismissed the justification.

According to Arabambi, the Labour Party’s rise in 2023 was driven more by public frustration with the Buhari administration and the #EndSARS movement than Obi’s personal appeal. “We are going to do our 2027 without Peter Obi; he will not have our ticket,” he said.

The spokesman further accused LP’s acting National Chairperson, Nenadi Usman, and activist Aisha Yesufu of aligning with Obi, vowing the party would take action against them. He challenged Obi to formally announce his exit from the party.

Arabambi alleged that Obi was “standing with one leg in LP, one leg in PDP, and one leg in ADC,” adding that the party would no longer accommodate what he described as political extremism.

“If he believes he can win seven million votes in 2027 on his own, let him leave and prove it,” Arabambi said, insisting Obi only used LP as a vehicle for change in 2023.

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