A big relief to Nigerian bank customers: you no longer need to reach your bank to deposit cash. You can now pay into any bank and the money will be credited into your account, just like you withdraw cash from any bank’s ATM.

The new deal has been made possible by BeyondBranches, owner of the payment platform QuickTeller, a value added service platform developed by Interswitch, the largest integrated payment processing service provider in Nigeria.

Now, BeyondBranches has developed the payment ecosystem further by enabling any customer to deposit cash into any bank account held at any bank in Nigeria at an agent. Using this approach, BeyondBranches has been able to bring the bank within easy reach of those who need to deposit cash quickly and securely.

“We are excited to make life easier for bank’s customers. The cost of transportation, the time wasted due to the traffic in Nigeria’s towns and cities and the queues within bank branches have made life difficult for the people of the country. Instead, customers of any bank can now go to a Quickteller agent and deposit funds into any bank account in Nigeria,” a Chief Operating Officer of BeyondBranches in Nigeria, Simon Aderinlola, said.

“Interswitch explores different opportunities to provide solutions that support the Cashless society drive of the CBN while also delivering a financially included Nigerian population. As such, BeyondBranches have integrated their platform and growing agent network into our platform to build a secure and highly scalable agency banking infrastructure in Nigeria, enabling Banks and other key players in the industry bring financial services closer to their customers in a secure manner. We are excited about the potential services that can be enabled with this infrastructure,” a Chief Payment and Value Added Services Officer of Interswitch Nigeria, Mrs. Titilola Shogaolu, narrated.

“The cash-deposit at an agent is an exciting new service that helps drive transactions to agents. By continually adding new services quickly, we can help drive branchless banking and digital inclusion in Nigeria. We hope to continue to support the Central Bank of Nigeria’s policies on financial inclusion,” the Chief Executive Officer of BeyondBranches International, Gregory Ubigen, stated.

BeyondBranches International Limited was founded in London, UK in March 2013 with a mission to build robust, secure, active and engaged agent networks globally.

BeyondBranches Nigeria was setup in May 2013 to support the cashless, agency banking and mobile payment initiatives running in that country. BeyondBranches is underpinned by a flexible, secure platform and scalable processes to enable Banks and other organizations to effectively leverage the network to bring services to their customers efficiently.

A family’s decision to live like it’s 1986 turned out to be a big modern-day attention grabber.

QMI Agency put the spotlight late last summer on members of a Guelph, Ont., family who have shunned post-1986 electronics and other conveniences.

The story went viral and became the 11th-most read article on torontosun.com.

“The week after you published the story, the phone was literally ringing off the hook,” father Blair McMillan, 26, told QMI Agency.

Newspapers from around the world frantically called his old-fashioned landline for an interview.

Some contacted QMI Agency with the impossible request for an e-mail address to reach the family. Others asked McMillan to e-mail them, obviously forgetting that form of communication did not exist in 1986.

Of those who did reach McMillan, “75% of people would either say ‘look us up on this’ or ‘what’s your e-mail?’ I’d be, like, I only have the phone,” he said with a chuckle. “It’s like they don’t even realize how different it was.”

Agents for reality shows also saw the opportunity in televising the strange experiment.

In case you didn’t know this already, it’s freakin’ freezing in the Midwest.

Need proof? In a video uploaded to YouTube on Monday, meteorologist Eric Holthaus makes boiling water transform into “snow” in Wisconsin.

“Holthaus demonstrates what happens when you toss a pot of boiling water into the sky when it is -21 degrees Fahrenheit with a wind chill of -51 degrees Fahrenheit,” the YouTube video description reads. It also notes that the clip was shot Monday in Viroqua, Wis.

Meteorologists warned of ”life-threatening” weather in many areas as a “polar vortex” of freezing air descended on the country Monday. In midwestern cities like Chicago, St. Louis, and Milwaukee, schools were closed and residents were cautioned to stay indoors, the Associated Press reported.

This isn’t the first time in recent days that someone has videotaped what happens when boiling water meets extreme cold. Last week an amateur scientist in South Porcupine, Ontario, posted a video on YouTube that showed him shooting hot water into the freezing cold air with a water gun.

As in Holthaus’ video, the hot water turned from liquid form into a white, snowlike mist.

The Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Mr. Ahmed Gulak, made this known on Sunday just as The PUNCH gathered that the feud between Jonathan and Obasanjo was adding to the worries of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party.

The sour relationship between the duo became public knowledge in December 2013 when Obasanjo wrote a letter titled “Before it is too late” to Jonathan.

In the letter, he accused the President of condoning corruption, training snipers, putting some persons on a watch list and engaging in other acts capable of destroying the country.

Jonathan replied Obasanjo openly, saying his letter was designed to incite Nigerians against him.

There were however speculations that some former leaders had approached the President and Obasanjo to reconcile them.

Although Gulak, in an exclusive interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, said he was not aware of such moves, he added that there was nothing wrong with it.

He stated that in spite of the exchange of letters between the two leaders, Jonathan still held Obasanjo in high esteem.

The presidential aide said the President did not only see Obasanjo as a leader but also as his father.

He said the President had nothing against Obasanjo because he believed strongly that only God was perfect.

The Presidential aide said, “We are not aware of the reconciliation moves but there is nothing wrong with it. In fact, it is a good development because our party, the PDP, is always open to reconciliation.

“Only God is perfect. If in the wisdom of the nation’s elders, there is a need for reconciliation, there is no problem.

“Let me assure you however that President Jonathan has nothing against Chief Obasanjo. He considers the former President as a leader and a father, that is why he calls him Baba.

“President Jonathan has highest respect for Chief Obasanjo. The recent exchange of letters does not mean that he does not hold the former President in high esteem.

“Nobody is perfect. No leader is perfect, it is only God that is perfect. There is no alternative to peace in the country and in our party.”

However, a media aide to Obasanjo, Mr. Tunde Oladunjoye, said on Sunday that the ex-president was not at war with Jonathan.

Oladunjoye, in a telephone interview with one of our correspondents in Abuja, also said he was not aware of any move to reconcile the two leaders.

He said, “Baba did not write that letter as an enemy. He said he wrote the letter as part of his duties to his political godson, the PDP and the nation.

“I can tell you without any fear of contradiction that Baba is not at war with anybody, including the President. That is why when the President wrote his own letter, Baba said he had no comment to make.”

Oladunjoye wondered why some people felt they could profit from a dispute that did not exist between Obasanjo and Jonathan.

He added that Obasanjo had, in his letter, stated that he would maintain his serenity.

But a top source in the PDP said the ruling party’s leadership was at a crossroads on how to handle the misunderstanding between the two leaders.

The source said the disagreement was not good for the PDP, especially at this critical period when all hands must be on the deck ahead of the 2015 general elections.

The source said, “Those who are saying that the former President is not popular and cannot even win election in his home state are ignorant of the enormous popularity he has in and outside the country.

“The former President is very popular in the North and even in the South-South because he was responsible for the Jonathan Presidency. So, people there still respect him for that.

“Remember that it was this same former President who calmed the frayed nerves at the Eagles Square during the 2011 presidential primaries and he was also the one who asked the late President, Alhaji Umaru Yar’Adua to step aside if he knew his health could no longer allow him to do the job when he was sick.”

He added that some PDP governors loyal to the former President could secretly go to him to seek advice on any issue, including the running of the party and the country.

“The President should know that his popularity and that of the party is declining since the sycophants around him would not tell him “ he added.

He said he expected the President and the PDP leadership to take precautionary measures in dealing with the crises in the party.

The source said, “We have lost five governors and 37 members of the House of Representatives and we may also lose more.

“The 2014 budget is still there before the National Assembly and all these are happening in an election year. Definitely, we have rookies at the helm of affairs of the party and those advising the President are not helping him.

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