Nirsal Micro Finance Bank has launched a non-interest banking window for Targeted Credit Facility and the Agric Small Medium Enterprise Scheme (AGSMEIS). With the latest announcement, NMFB joins the list of four other banks in Nigeria that offers non-interest banking products, Jaiz bank is the first financial institution in Nigeria to start the Islamic principle … Read more
With $20 million in financing from the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) in 2018 and another $25million to support SMEs in September 2021, Jaiz Bank’s interest-free business loan products might be the choice of startups irrespective of religious sentiments in a few years. Founded by Alhaji Umar Mutallab in 2003, Jaiz … Read more
The pioneer of non-interest credit facility in Nigeria Jaiz Bank says it has got $25million from Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD). ICD is the private sector arm of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), a Saudi Arabia-based multilateral development finance institution that is focused on Islamic finance. If converted to naira using the CBN … Read more
One of the ways for a business owner to quickly achieve their entrepreneurial goals is to get access to a soft or an interest-free loan, but most of the financial institutions around the world make a profit from interest on a credit facility. However, some financial institutions in Nigeria are gradually embracing Islamic tenets of … Read more
To many Nigerians, the Government Enterprise & Empowerment Programme (GEEP) was active before the 2019 general elections, not knowing that a lot of credit facilities are still going on across the country. You just have to connect with the right information. Another batch of the programme, according to the information we received from the National … Read more
It is not a good time for some applicants of the CBN-backed covid-19 as they continue to receive unauthorised debit alerts from Nirsal Microfinance Bank (NMFB). Please I need help I applied for Nirsal covid-19 loan they credited me and debited me at once leaving 1,946 on the account I don’t understand please reply me … Read more
We’ve said severally how difficult it is for small business owners to access financing, but getting the right information to know the right credit facility for SMEs is also very important. Do you know that even when the loans are available, the eligibility requirements and the interest rates by the commercial banks are not always … Read more
Nirsal Micro Finance Bank (NMFB), a CBN-dedicated bank for disbursement of government loans, has assured small business owners and individuals who accepted the loan offer of the government would receive a credit alert. The bank made the assurance on its Facebook page while reacting to the delay in the disbursement of loan applications and assured … Read more
The recent N250,000,000,000 Gas Intervention Fund by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is one of the several financing programmes for a quick economic recovery. The essence of the gas fund is to support the propagation of gas while creating massive jobs for millions of unemployed Nigerians through access to financing. Nigeria’s government is implementing … Read more
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) can never forget the economic effect of the covid-19 pandemic on their businesses. But the business policies of Nigeria’s apex bank are most likely to put smiles on the faces of such business owners going by the latest 27-page guidelines handed down by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) … Read more