Millions of banking customers will lose access to the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) of nine banks after telecommunication firms stop supporting these codes because of a N160 billion debt.
These telcos, acting under the Nigerian Communications Commission’s (NCC) directive, will cut off the USSD access of these banks by Monday, January 27, 2025, if a chunk of the debt is not cleared.
In a notice on Wednesday, the NCC listed the banks and their USSD codes: Fidelity Bank Plc (770), First City Monument Bank (329), Jaiz Bank Pl