THE Nigerian banking industry has seen its own fair share of innuendo. Like other Nigerian colonial and pre-colonial institutions, the first Nigerian banks started on solid footing.
With virtually the whole of the Nigerian population operating their business and public lives outside of banking system, Nigerian banks had originally been established as extensions of mother pre-existing banks to serve imperialist interests and promote compliance in the growing civil service.
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