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You see, when tragedy befalls some Nigerians, just know they are the architect of their own tribulations in life. Someone raised an alarm over a perceived security threat, he called on all security agencies to come to their rescue. If it later turned out not to be what he reported, I feel he still deserves praise and commendations for being proactive. Not everyone will see such and report. A lot of people just care of about their personal lives alone and may be their families, others can go and die for all they care. You don't come out to start condemning such a person, calling him a liar. This is very shameful and regrettable. Soon their will be an incident, when no one reports, then you will read reports of massive casualties.... The security agencies are not doing enough, they need to be prompted, reported, called out, criticised and encouraged where necessary until things become okay again. |
shadrach77:Says a man who is still trying to figure out his purpose in life. |
WhizdomXX:It is not insiders. It is the bank gangan. GTbank now directly steals money from customers accounts without any reasonable explanations. They set me back for over 200k, I abandoned the account after 96,000 was debited. No SMS alert, no e-mail alert, no OTP nothing! All they claimed was some bogus card transaction that was not in the transaction history sef. What kind of madness is this? Why are Nigerians like this? Everybody is a thief! Insurance companies, banks, pensions, state Government, local, Federal, Police, everybody... |
2cribz:Okay na, lets leave the car and talk about the house he is building. That's an edifice right there. |
ROTTWEILER007:How you take measure your 99.9% ![]() If your assessment is right, then the stone stops on his head because it's a flat surface there and the gap has sharp and equal edges that will balance out. It stops there. |
Oga, better face life realities. There's is nothing more about that statement than it is the statement of a chronic cheat. |
It's very simple. If you want to know if he wants something other than sex from you, just deny him sex for a while then you will find out. |
Kingosytex:This guy na werey! But he is spitting some sense... |
Dazzay:It is you people's stupid tradition now. When we talk now, they will say we are Africans. But we are foolish African people. Africans are backward people and why the continent will never measure up to the 1st world and 2nd world categories. |
agulion:Why not just speak for yourself. Since it's obvious your mission and vision in life. Please, don't generalise and merge yourself with "yoruba Muslims". Go on your mission yourself. |
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The initiative is good but just wait to see what the youth and people in charge of the facility will do with it in the next 2years. How they will steal the equipment and run down the facility in no time. We always shout the Government while we are just as bad, if not worse. Nigerians really need to change their orientation and perspective of this country if we are to go anywhere meaningful. All these selfish attitude of me, me, me, my family, myself, me-myself-and-I must stop! But currently, we are far away from it. May God help us. |
Urgent1Million:It's her body but she can't do "whatever" with it. There should be some regulations to what modifications you can to your body. Some of these things are needless, they just want to do it for show-offs and when it backfires, we will all be inconvenienced in one way or the way. If your belly size is not life-threatening, don't tamper with it. Manage whatever you have with discipline and avoid unnecessary troubles. |
aktolly54:The Police officer can't beg him if he is wearing a spy glasses, he will still trend negatively. The Nigerian Policemen know they always err and always flout same laws they were employed to uphold. Even in the US that started body cams for the US Police, we still see what some of their Policemen do with the cams when they want to do the wrong thing. Sometimes, they turn it off. They manipulate it. They too are not so comfortable with being recorded. You have to be exceptionally good to be comfortable with cameras, cos it will expose you beyond your imaginations ![]() I always admire the UK Police, I feel they are the friendliest in the world. I don't live in the UK but I still see in lots of videos how they conduct themselves very professionally and with less aggression. They are very impressive! |
dawnomike:It is not about the Policemen, it is about Nigerians. Give an average Nigerian a small power or weapon and see what he becomes thereafter. You will marvel at his wickedness! The goodness and progress of a nation is in the hearts of it's people. Whatever they harbour in their beliefs is what the country will become. Simply take a look at the big countries doing well today, you will see the reflection in how their citizens/indigenes behave. |
fuckingAyaya:What VDM did (has done in the last 2weeks) has earned him even a lot more respect, glory and recognition. With the way he is going, he will become a very formidable force and opposition to bad people in the country. I appreciate his passion for Nigeria and his compassion for life. He is indeed an exceptional and courageous person. A lot of youth with his strength, courage and determination would rather use them wrongly in cultism, kidnapping, fraud or armed gangs but he is doing the opposite. What was more hopeless in the video was when Soldiers and Policemen arrived the scene of the incident but refused to enter into the bush to rescue the kidnapped victims (a full bus and some private vehicles). If that guy had a gun yesterday, he would go after those people. The few guys with him were also very spirited. They all tried and another life was narrowly saved. So much bloodshed now going on in this country, for what exactly? Why are the our armed Police and Soldiers always afraid to go after "armed people" who really pose a threat to life and peace of the country, but would be very eager to jump on unarmed people with all their strength? It is time for us the youth of the country to protect and support people like VDM, there are a few of them, some unknown but with the same spirit to continue to fight for the survival and wellbeing of our nation. Our enemies are within us. They are the ones making money from the misfortunes of this country. So much killings, lawlessness, chaos, destruction... VDM has become visible and he needs all the support he can get. He can't do it alone and he must be protected, for the more fame he gets, the more danger he is in.... |
Thundafireseun:You don't truly know what God has done for you... Please, keep it that way, very healthy! |
How GTB moved money from my account without explanation — Customer Both Ms Onilede and Mr Jonathan told this newspaper that as of today, nearly a year later, their missing funds have still not been restored. A Nigerian journalist and communications expert, Simbo Olorunfemi, has accused Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) of moving more than N126,000 from his account without explanation and delaying resolution efforts for weeks. In a Facebook post on Thursday, Mr Olorunfemi said the issue began on 10 July when he attempted to pay for a flight ticket with his GTBank card. He said the transaction failed on account of “insufficient funds” despite having transferred N300,000 into the account two days earlier. “I checked my account balance and realised that it had been set back by N127,000, even without any entry in my account to explain this debit,” he wrote. According to him, later that day two backdated entries appeared in his account, each showing debits of N63,138.86 as purported payments for Facebook Ads. He said repeated clicks on the entries did not generate receipts, describing them as “dead links.” Premium Times Nigeria NAICOM AD BUA Group Ad GTBank Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc How GTB moved money from my account without explanation — Customer Both Ms Onilede and Mr Jonathan told this newspaper that as of today, nearly a year later, their missing funds have still not been restored. byAyodeji Adegboyega August 21, 2025 Reading Time: 4 mins read MTN ADVERT A Nigerian journalist and communications expert, Simbo Olorunfemi, has accused Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) of moving more than N126,000 from his account without explanation and delaying resolution efforts for weeks. Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp In a Facebook post on Thursday, Mr Olorunfemi said the issue began on 10 July when he attempted to pay for a flight ticket with his GTBank card. He said the transaction failed on account of “insufficient funds” despite having transferred N300,000 into the account two days earlier. FIRST BANK AD “I checked my account balance and realised that it had been set back by N127,000, even without any entry in my account to explain this debit,” he wrote. According to him, later that day two backdated entries appeared in his account, each showing debits of N63,138.86 as purported payments for Facebook Ads. He said repeated clicks on the entries did not generate receipts, describing them as “dead links.” IX He said reminders to the bank eventually led to someone sending him a dispute form to fill and submit. Although he initially resisted filling the form for what he called “fictitious transactions,” he later completed it and sent it to his account officer more than two weeks after the incident was first reported. Mr Olorunfemi said that even after submitting the form, GTBank failed to provide clarity. At some point, he said, the bank credited his account with N61,590 but backdated the entry to July 11. The narration read: “Dispense error reversal EurFacebk.” “To my mind, the Bank might have assumed the payment of that N61,590 as refund of the N63,138.86 it debited my account. It even charged N50 for EML,” he wrote. He said GTBank offered no explanation or apology for the two debits of N63,138.86 or the credit of N61,590. “It has not explained to me how N126,000 mysteriously disappeared from my account, and a ‘reversal’ of N61,590 made it in. This is almost 6 weeks after,” he added. When he followed up with his account officer, Mr Olorunfemi said she told him it would take “a minimum of 45 days” for the bank to investigate the matter. “I don’t know when that countdown began. I suspect that the 45 days might have only started from 2 weeks back when she acknowledged receiving the dispute form,” he said. “In other words, GTBank assumes it proper to fiddle as it wishes with a customer account, post fictitious transactions, debit the account at its pleasure, and then push the burden onto the customer to dispute this imaginary transaction, following which it then assigns onto itself ‘a minimum of 45 days to investigate it’,” he wrote. He warned that the bank appeared indifferent to customers’ needs. “The right of the customer to his money does not count. It is of no concern to the Bank that the customer might actually be in dire need of the money. It could even be that the money is needed for urgent medical needs.” Mr Olorunfemi also alleged that this was not the first time GTBank had posted fictitious transactions on his account. He recalled a previous case in which the bank “went as far as wiping out all what was on my dollar card, moved onto the domiciliary account, and then onto the Naira account, just to effect another imaginary debit.” He said a fixed deposit once disappeared from its books for months, leading to a court case that dragged on for 10 years before it was disrupted when the Igbosere High Court in Lagos was set ablaze during the EndSARS protests. “How a Bank thinks it normal that money put in its care, in trust, will simply disappear and the onus will then be that of the customer to dispute imaginary transaction and wait for 45 days for outcome of its ‘investigation’ beats me,” he wrote. Other customers lament Many Facebook users responding to Mr Olorunfemi’s post shared their own experiences, alleging unexplained debits, unresolved disputes and a lack of accountability from GTBank. Chukwuma Okeke said he stopped banking with GTB after repeated issues. “The rogue banking of GTB is that it will debit you for something you didn’t purchase and remove it from your transaction record,” he wrote. He said the bank once charged him N30,000 for a Starlink subscription that cost N36,000. “Opay is now my regular spending account,” he added. Another user, Abraham Godwin, alleged that customers had long faced unauthorised debits. “Frankly speaking this bank has been in the forefront of this wrong actions. I have heard tales of customers who wake up with strings of Debit messages from the bank with transactions foreign to them,” he wrote. Premium Times Nigeria NAICOM AD BUA Group Ad GTBank Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc How GTB moved money from my account without explanation — Customer Both Ms Onilede and Mr Jonathan told this newspaper that as of today, nearly a year later, their missing funds have still not been restored. byAyodeji Adegboyega August 21, 2025 Reading Time: 4 mins read MTN ADVERT A Nigerian journalist and communications expert, Simbo Olorunfemi, has accused Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) of moving more than N126,000 from his account without explanation and delaying resolution efforts for weeks. Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp In a Facebook post on Thursday, Mr Olorunfemi said the issue began on 10 July when he attempted to pay for a flight ticket with his GTBank card. He said the transaction failed on account of “insufficient funds” despite having transferred N300,000 into the account two days earlier. FIRST BANK AD “I checked my account balance and realised that it had been set back by N127,000, even without any entry in my account to explain this debit,” he wrote. According to him, later that day two backdated entries appeared in his account, each showing debits of N63,138.86 as purported payments for Facebook Ads. He said repeated clicks on the entries did not generate receipts, describing them as “dead links.” IX He said reminders to the bank eventually led to someone sending him a dispute form to fill and submit. Although he initially resisted filling the form for what he called “fictitious transactions,” he later completed it and sent it to his account officer more than two weeks after the incident was first reported. Mr Olorunfemi said that even after submitting the form, GTBank failed to provide clarity. At some point, he said, the bank credited his account with N61,590 but backdated the entry to July 11. The narration read: “Dispense error reversal EurFacebk.” “To my mind, the Bank might have assumed the payment of that N61,590 as refund of the N63,138.86 it debited my account. It even charged N50 for EML,” he wrote. He said GTBank offered no explanation or apology for the two debits of N63,138.86 or the credit of N61,590. “It has not explained to me how N126,000 mysteriously disappeared from my account, and a ‘reversal’ of N61,590 made it in. This is almost 6 weeks after,” he added. When he followed up with his account officer, Mr Olorunfemi said she told him it would take “a minimum of 45 days” for the bank to investigate the matter. “I don’t know when that countdown began. I suspect that the 45 days might have only started from 2 weeks back when she acknowledged receiving the dispute form,” he said. “In other words, GTBank assumes it proper to fiddle as it wishes with a customer account, post fictitious transactions, debit the account at its pleasure, and then push the burden onto the customer to dispute this imaginary transaction, following which it then assigns onto itself ‘a minimum of 45 days to investigate it’,” he wrote. He warned that the bank appeared indifferent to customers’ needs. “The right of the customer to his money does not count. It is of no concern to the Bank that the customer might actually be in dire need of the money. It could even be that the money is needed for urgent medical needs.” Mr Olorunfemi also alleged that this was not the first time GTBank had posted fictitious transactions on his account. He recalled a previous case in which the bank “went as far as wiping out all what was on my dollar card, moved onto the domiciliary account, and then onto the Naira account, just to effect another imaginary debit.” He said a fixed deposit once disappeared from its books for months, leading to a court case that dragged on for 10 years before it was disrupted when the Igbosere High Court in Lagos was set ablaze during the EndSARS protests. “How a Bank thinks it normal that money put in its care, in trust, will simply disappear and the onus will then be that of the customer to dispute imaginary transaction and wait for 45 days for outcome of its ‘investigation’ beats me,” he wrote. Other customers lament Many Facebook users responding to Mr Olorunfemi’s post shared their own experiences, alleging unexplained debits, unresolved disputes and a lack of accountability from GTBank. Chukwuma Okeke said he stopped banking with GTB after repeated issues. “The rogue banking of GTB is that it will debit you for something you didn’t purchase and remove it from your transaction record,” he wrote. He said the bank once charged him N30,000 for a Starlink subscription that cost N36,000. “Opay is now my regular spending account,” he added. Another user, Abraham Godwin, alleged that customers had long faced unauthorised debits. “Frankly speaking this bank has been in the forefront of this wrong actions. I have heard tales of customers who wake up with strings of Debit messages from the bank with transactions foreign to them,” he wrote. He said one pastor received debit alerts showing “sporty bets of over 2.4 million Naira.” Mr Godwin said he stopped using GTB despite keeping an old MasterCard, adding: “Since I opened my FCMB bank account I can tell you that I have had ‘over rest of mind’.” Kunle Ojeleye also said he closed his account with GTB after over two decades. “I drew down my over-20 years account with them, which was my primary account, for almost a similar reason many months ago and started using another bank,” he wrote. Another commenter, Olumide Olugbemi-Gabriel, accused the bank of malpractice. “I have posted evidence of the shenanigans and outright criminality of GTB,” he wrote. He said someone once advised him to sue the bank after discovering that an account was opened in his name without his consent. “This is a bank that I dislike with a passion because of constant customer complaints that I usually come across.” Rashid Ahmed said he was charged twice for a Netflix upgrade even though he did not have a Netflix account. “I went to the bank, but the issue wasn’t resolved,” he wrote. Frank Ezekiel described the allegations as fraud. “This is a clear case of FRAUD!!! GTBank in simple terms ‘Fraudulently defrauded you’ and it’s common amongst most Nigerian banks and institutions (the telecoms mainly): operating with lawless impunity, which they very often get away with because the average Nigerian gives up fighting against these fraudulent acts,” he said. Past complaints resurface The latest outrage is not new. In November 2024, PREMIUM TIMES reported widespread complaints from GTBank customers following the bank’s core system migration. Among them was Temilade Onilede, who initially lost money after a failed point-of-sale transaction where N3,100 ballooned into a deduction of N5,100. Matters worsened when she discovered that her account balance, which had risen to more than N50,000 after payments from her office and clients, had suddenly crashed to just N1,500. Her troubles deepened when a friend transferred N171,000 to her account: she received an alert, but the funds vanished soon after without any trace in her banking records. Later, she was hit by multiple unauthorised debits labelled “web Google Play NG”, even though she never used her card online or received OTPs for such transactions. She spent long hours in the banking hall trying to resolve the issue, only to be told that “fraudulent activity” was linked to her card, an explanation she strongly disputed. Her colleague, Silas Jonathan, faced a similar ordeal. A N40,000 transfer he made to Ms Onilede was debited twice without crediting her account. He later found his own Naira and foreign currency accounts blocked, with deposits failing to reflect, unexplained withdrawals, and error messages each time he tried GTBank’s *737# service. While stranded abroad, he was unable to access his savings in dollars and euros, even as colleagues using other banks had no such issues. After repeated visits to GTBank branches, he was advised by staff not to rely on the account for salary payments, an admission that left him frustrated and financially vulnerable. Despite repeated assurances from GTBank that glitches from the system upgrade would be resolved, both Ms Onilede and Mr Jonathan told this newspaper that as of today, nearly a year later, their missing funds have still not been restored. When PREMIUM TIMES contacted Mr Olorunfemi Thursday evening, he told this newspaper that there hasn’t been any resolution yet. Charles Eremi of GTCO’s Corporate Communication Unit did not answer his calls. WhatsApp messages sent to his phone on Thursday were delivered but had not been replied to as of press time. Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/815738-how-gtb-moved-money-from-my-account-without-explanation-customer.html |
franchasng: |
When Canada last week referred to APC and PDP as terrorists organizations, we could see that the FG didn't really defend themselves or outrightly denounce the statement. They kept quiet about it. They know they can't mess with all the US, Canada and co. Those ones know alot about the criminalities going on in our country than even we Nigerians living here. Make them talk, make those one come out with hard evidence, them go shock! |
Hezzyluv:A Government or any entity that is out to steal cannot perform. |
decatalyst:It's rubbish! So why can't he keep his prisoners in his country? He keeps shipping them to Africa. He manipulates the international market with his trade tariff nonsense. This guy is just a useless President. |
classicfrank4u:It is still unique in a way because not everyone born into wealth sustained it. Some people squandered their father's fortune on hard drugs and bad investments. He sustained the father's wealth and even became richer. So, he is unique in his own way. Na him know him struggle. He explained struggling so much with academics, something most of you here achieved with ease. If you know what is means to struggle with academics and the accompanying loss of self-confidence, then you will imagine what he had gone through, even as a rich man's son. |
obataokenwa:That's the difference between South-West and South-East. There is this obvious recklessness in the South East. Most of the news and events emanating from there are not always palatable. Armed gangs, killing of youth, police, security operatives, kidnappings, assassinations, unprovoked attacks, armed robberies, cultism and so on.... Even though, other places may experience same misdemeanors and criminality but not in this volume Blatant recklessness... |
gigabyte13:Cos he wasn't man enough to be married. Not sure having a girlfriend sef (with all due respect). Being a man is not only about sleeping with a woman but standing your ground and taking key decisions of your own and being responsible for people "attached" to you. I know there's nothing women cannot do. Make we dey fear women but at least, you no go make am easy for them. You sef go dey on your werey down most times like hotspot, no dey allow yourself be tossed around. Women always want men they can control, na you no go gree, else them go finish you. |
okpouman:It is one of the major reasons why we can't break free from them. It's like we are perpetually tied to the Westerners as subordinates for life. |
SenecaTheYonger:I want to believe it's true. May be that's why my Tiktok account was just deactivated without any reason whatsoever. Because we criticise the Government when we feel they are not doing well. A Government that can't take criticisms can't do well! It is as simple as that and we will continue to constructively criticise them on all fronts and everywhere we have access to platforms, because we also have a stake in this country and are directly affected positively or negatively with whatever action or inaction they take or refuse to take. |
Procashtips:No be lie. But somehow I am getting comfortable with it and strategizing okay for now... |
We have similar problems. I lost mine in shady travel arrangements. I have an asset than can pay my debts too. It's my uncompleted house but I don't wanna sell it, cos that's like the only thing I have left. Still struggling to get back on my feet, being trying to figure out ways to repay my debts. I am currently into Forex trading and trying to secure a loan to go fully into trading. Sometimes, I just switch off my phone to avoid disturbing calls. I know I will get back on my feet but don't know how soon. Guy, a man's life is not an easy one! A man's life would have been a lot more easier, peaceful and enjoyable without family. Building a family has led to the end of a lot of men. May God help us... |
SmartPolician:He deliberately left this 661m for them to be used as plea bargaining money, after that, he is a free man with undisclosed billions of Naira in stolen wealth. Even the Government knows these things but will just play along. EFCC too will steal their own inside the money and so on... |
DoctorStanley:Let the Nigerian Government first take the stats of how many Nigerians are in the US and vice versa, then they will be in a better position to tender their demands ![]() |
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