The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, in its recently released data revealed that electronic payment channels recorded N29.44 trillion worth of transactions in the last quarter of 2017.
Electronic Payment Channels in Nigeria’s banking sector posted a total volume of 461,980,541 transactions in the last quarter of last year.
The report showed that the Automated Teller Machine, ATM transactions dominated the volume of transactions recorded.
Analysis of the report showed that 239,692,229 ATM transactions valued at N1.83 trillion were recorded in Q4 2017.
In terms of credit to private sector, a total of N15.74 trillion worth of credit was allocated by the banks in Q4 2017.
Oil & Gas and Manufacturing sectors got credit allocation of N3.58 trillion and N2.17 trillion to record the highest credit allocation in the period under review.
As at Q4, 2017, the total number of banks’ staffs increased by 9.19 per cent from 82, 840 in Q3 2017 to 90,453.
