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Mixed reactions as N65 ATM charge goes into operation

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HERE are mixed reactions among Nigerians as the N65 charge on Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transaction begins today. The remote-on-us ATM transactions as directed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on (other banks ATMs) withdrawal, was cancelled in December 2012 under the leadership of ex-Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi,

By Collins Nweze, Finance Correspondent

citing the need to encourage the use of the ATM. Then, it was N100 per withdrawal. But in the new regime, which begins today, a customer will be debited N65 after three withdrawals from other banks’ ATM. The apex bank and the Bankers Committee have said the decision is in the eco-

nomic interest of the country. They said the removal of the charges had a negative effect on the cashless policy, adding that today’s take-off of the N65 fee would create competition among banks and lead to better services. “The wear and tear as well as the frequency of servicing the ATMs has increased significantly. Indeed, some customers were beginning to abuse the use of ATMs

through countless withdrawals. This development has led to increase in cash transactions, which negates the bank’s cashless policy,” the CBN said in a statement. According to the CBN, if a part of this cost goes unabated, the banks may be forced to reject transactions coming from their customers at other banks’ ATMs, thereby frustrating the inter-operability of payment systems.

Maintaining that running an ATM is expensive and requires economic incentive, an economist and Managing Director, Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Bismark Rewane, described the reinstatement of the ATM charge as appropriate. He said the removal of ATM charges was wrong in the first instance, adding Continued on page 4

Ebola virus: Doctor, two others put in isolation •SEE ALSO PAGES 2&3

50 ‘on high risk’ 60 on contact list ‘can’t be traced’ Govt breaching own rule, says APC

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HREE people – a doctor, a pharmacist and another person – among those who had primary contact with the late Dr. Ikechukwu Sam Enemuo, the first Ebola victim in Rivers State, have been quarantined after showing symptoms of the virus. The results of their tests are, however, still being awaited. The late doctor Emenuo’s widow, who has tested positive to the virus, is receiving treatment in La-

From Rosemary Nwisi, Port Harcourt

gos. Rivers State Commissioner for Health Dr. Sampson Parker broke the news yesterday in an update on the outbreak of Ebola in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s major oil hub and the second city after Lagos to be hit by the virus in Nigeria. The late Dr. Enemuo contracted the virus and died on August 22 in Port Harcourt. He became the sixth Nigerian to

Fintiri, nine others gang up against Ribadu, Marwa

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EBOLA IN FIGURES •Number of cases so far •Those treated in isolation ward in Lagos •Discharged from hospital

die of the virus after secretly treating a Nigerian official of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr. Oluibukun Koye, in

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•Deaths from virus infection •Undergoing treatment •Number of untraced contacts in Rivers

a hotel in Port Harcourt. Koye, who contracted Ebola after having primary contact with the Index case in Nigeria, Liberian-American Patrick

Sawyer, escaped from quarantine in Lagos to Port Harcourt where he was treated by Dr. Enemuo. Koye is free of the virus, but Dr. Enemuo, Chief Medical Director of Samsteel Hospital in Rumuokoro, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, died of the virus. He was the third medical doctor to die of the virus. The commissioner said the doctor and pharmacist started managing Enemuo’s case at his hospital, before he was

moved to Good Hart Hospital, where he died. Also moved to the quarantine centre, according to the commissioner, is a patient who was on admission at the Good Hart Hospital where Enemuo was admitted until he died. The commissioner said 50 among the 200 people on the contact tracing list are classified to be high risk; 60 of them could not be reached even on the telephone. Some Continued on page 4

•PDP panel clears acting Adamawa governor

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From Barnabas Manyam, Yola

EN of the 14 aspirants contesting for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship ticket in the Adamawa State governorship by-election have come together against Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and three others. The others are former Lagos State Military Administrator Gen. Buba Marwa, ex-Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Executive Secretary Dr. Ahmed Modibo and

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former governorship candidate Marcus Gundiri. In the gang-up are Acting Governor Umar Fintiri, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, Awwal WHERE ARE Tukur, James Barka, Sen THE CHIBOK Abubakar Girei, Dr. Idi GIRLS Hong, Aliyu Kama, Umar KIDNAPPED Ardo, Jerry Kumdisi and ON APRIL 15? Continued on page 4

•WHEN A KILLER VISITS: A girl walks past a slogan painted on a wall reading “Stop Ebola” in Monrovia, Liberia…yesterday.

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