FirstBank Companions with Verve to Problem Free Verve Debit Playing cards in Nationwide Flash Promo, Extends Good Life Promo

First Bank of Nigeria Restricted (FirstBank), Nigeria’s premier and main monetary inclusion providers supplier, has introduced the launch of the Verve Flash Promo, a particular initiative rewarding prospects with free Verve playing cards.

The marketing campaign, which commenced on 6 October 2025, and can run till 30 January 2026, is completely focused at FirstBank prospects whose ATM playing cards have expired.

The free playing cards can be issued each day to 131 prospects on a first-come, first-served foundation throughout the Financial institution’s branches, nationwide. FirstBank’s unwavering dedication to comfort, accessibility, and buyer satisfaction.

Talking on the rewards to FirstBank prospects, Chuma Ezirim, the Group Government, e-Enterprise and Retail Merchandise at FirstBank, mentioned: “The Verve Flash Promo isn’t just about rewarding prospects with free verve debit playing cards; it’s about celebrating our legacy of 131 years of belief, resilience, and innovation within the Nigerian monetary providers business. At FirstBank, we stay dedicated to offering customer-centric options that allow safe, seamless, and handy fee experiences. Partnering with Verve Worldwide on these initiatives, together with the Verve Good Life promo, underscores our shared imaginative and prescient of deepening monetary inclusion whereas rewarding our loyal prospects for his or her steady patronage.”

Additionally commenting, Vincent Ogbunude, Managing Director, Verve Worldwide, famous:

“By means of strategic collaborations like this with FirstBank, we proceed to display Verve’s dedication to enhancing entry to seamless fee options for each Nigerian. The Verve Flash Promo not solely rewards loyal prospects but additionally reinforces our imaginative and prescient of constructing on a regular basis transactions extra rewarding, safe, and handy. As we lengthen the Good Life Promo, we stay steadfast in our objective of deepening monetary inclusion whereas delivering actual worth to Verve cardholders throughout the nation.”

In the meantime, the continued Verve Good Life promo, designed to reward Verve debit card holders for utilizing their playing cards at particular service provider factors, has been prolonged to 30 November 2025.

In the course of the interval, Verve Card holders get pleasure from 10% cashback at The Place Restaurant, Quickteller, Buypower, Filmhouse, AlliExpress, Addide Supermarkets, and Chowdeck app each Thursday to Sunday.

Verve cardholders can now get pleasure from a ten% cashback on the Google Play Retailer any day of the week all through the Good Life Promo, which runs till 30 November 2025. Moreso, each transaction made with a Verve card whether or not on ATMs, POS terminals, or on-line platforms mechanically earns prospects an opportunity to win as much as ₦1,000,000.

About FirstBank

First Bank of Nigeria Restricted “FirstBank”, established in 1894, is the premier financial institution in West Africa, a number one monetary inclusion providers supplier in Africa, and a digital banking big.

FirstBank’s worldwide footprints reduce throughout three continents ─ Africa, Europe and Asia, with FirstBank UK Restricted in London and Paris; FirstBank in The Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, The Gambia, Guinea and Sierra Leone; FBNBank in Senegal; and a FirstBank Consultant Workplace in Beijing, China. All of the subsidiary banks are totally registered by their respective Central Banks to offer full banking providers.

Moreover offering home banking providers, the subsidiaries additionally have interaction in worldwide cross-border transactions with FirstBank’s non-Nigerian subsidiaries, and the consultant workplaces in Paris and China facilitate commerce flows from Asia and Europe into Nigeria and different African international locations.

For over 13 a long time, FirstBank has constructed an excellent repute for strong relationships, good company governance, and a robust liquidity place, and has been on the forefront of selling digital fee within the nation with over 13 million playing cards issued to prospects (the primary financial institution to realize such a milestone in Nigeria). FirstBank has continued to make important investments in know-how, innovation and transformation, and its cashless transaction drive has been steadily accentuated with nearly over 25 million lively FirstBank prospects signed up on digital channels together with the USSD Fast Banking service via the nationally famend *894# Banking code.

With over 43 million buyer accounts (together with digital wallets) unfold throughout Nigeria, UK and sub-Saharan Africa, the Financial institution offers a complete vary of retail and wholesale monetary providers via greater than 820 enterprise workplaces and over 280,000 agent places unfold throughout 772 out of the 774 Native Authorities Areas in Nigeria.

Along with banking options and providers, FirstBank offers pension fund custody providers in Nigeria via First Pension Custodian Nigeria Restricted and nominee and related providers via First Nominees Nigeria Restricted.

FirstBank’s dedication to Range is proven in its insurance policies, partnerships and initiatives resembling its workers’ ratio of feminine to male (about 41%:59%; and 37% girls in administration roles) in addition to the FirstBank Girls Community, an initiative that seeks to handle the gender hole and enhance the participation of ladies in any respect ranges inside the organisation.  As well as, the Financial institution’s membership of the UN Girls is an affirmation of a deliberate coverage that’s in keeping with UN Girls’s Girls Empowerment’s Rules (WEPs) ─ Equal Alternative, Inclusion, and Nondiscrimination.

For six consecutive years (2011 – 2016), FirstBank was named “Most Priceless Financial institution Model in Nigeria” by the globally famend The Banker Journal of the Monetary Occasions Group and “Greatest Retail Financial institution in Nigeria” eight instances in a row, 2011 – 2018, by the Asian Banker Worldwide Excellence in Retail Monetary Companies Awards.

Considerably, FirstBank’s International Credit score Score was A+ with a optimistic outlook whereas rankings by Fitch and Normal & Poor’s had been A (nga) and ngBBB+ respectively each with Steady outlooks as at September 2023. FirstBank maintained the identical stage of worldwide credit score rankings because the sovereign; a milestone that was achieved in 2022 for the primary time since 2015.

In 2024, FirstBank obtained notable worldwide awards and accolades. A few of these embody Nigeria’s Greatest Financial institution for ESG 2024 and Nigeria’s Greatest Financial institution for Corporates 2024 each awarded by Euromoney Awards for Excellence; Greatest SME Financial institution in Africa and in Nigeria by The Asian Banker International Awards; Greatest Non-public Financial institution in Nigeria and Greatest Non-public Financial institution for Sustainable Investing in Africa by International Finance Awards; Greatest Company Financial institution in Nigeria 2024, Greatest CSR Financial institution in Nigeria 2024, Greatest Retail Financial institution in Nigeria 2024, Greatest SME Financial institution in Nigeria 2024 and Greatest Non-public Financial institution in Nigeria 2024 all awarded by the International Banking and Finance Awards.

FirstBank has continued to realize vast acclaim on the worldwide stage with a number of worldwide awards and recognitions obtained up to now in 2025 which incorporates Greatest SME Financial institution in Nigeria 2025 and Greatest SME Financial institution in Africa 2025 by The Asian Banker; Greatest Non-public Financial institution in Nigeria 2025 and Greatest Non-public Financial institution for Sustainable Investing in Africa 2025 by International Finance Awards; SME Financier of the Yr in Nigeria 2025 by The Digital Banker International SME Banking Innovation Awards; Greatest Retail Financial institution in Nigeria 2025 and Greatest Financial institution for Empowering Girls Entrepreneurs in Nigeria 2025 all by The Annual International Economics Awards.

Our imaginative and prescient is “To be Africa’s Financial institution of first alternative” and our mission is “To stay true to our identify by offering the most effective monetary providers attainable”. This dedication is anchored on our core values of EPIC – Entrepreneurship, Professionalism, Innovation and Buyer-Centricity. Our strategic ambition is “To ship accelerated development in profitability via customer-led innovation and disciplined execution.”

Olayinka Ijabiyi

Ag. Group Head, Advertising & Company Communications

First Bank of Nigeria Restricted