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Nigerian comedian and filmmaker, Ayo Makun, popularly known as AY, has said the small deductions by banks on customers\u2019 accounts need to be challenged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AY made this known on Tuesday, April 1, 2024, via his verified X handle, where he questioned how banks continue to make huge profits while the average Nigerian struggles to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He wrote, \u201cWhere do banks get the trillions they declare as profits every quarter, even in a struggling economy? The small charges and debits on our accounts need to be challenged. Many of these fees are unique to Nigeria. Why is that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 53-year-old entertainer noted that some of the deductions are not only strange but also unfair to customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He described the charges as one of the silent ways Nigerians are being drained financially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Culled from The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigerian comedian and filmmaker, Ayo Makun, popularly known as AY, has said the small deductions by banks on customers\u2019 accounts need to be challenged. AY made this known on Tuesday, April 1, 2024, via his verified X handle, where he questioned how banks continue to make huge profits while the average Nigerian struggles to survive. He wrote, \u201cWhere do banks get the trillions they declare as profits every quarter, even in a struggling economy? The small charges and debits on our accounts need to be challenged. Many of these fees are unique to Nigeria. Why is that?\u201d The 53-year-old entertainer noted that some of the deductions are not only strange but also unfair to customers. He described the charges as one of the silent ways Nigerians are being drained financially. Culled from The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23706,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704\/revisions\/23706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}