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Posted by Felix Okoli on Friday June 28, 2013 at 17:39:33:

If one was asked to name one of the fastest ways of opening a bank account in Nigeria, it would definitely have to do with Social media and this one is pioneered by GTBank.

GTBank is now officially making use of Facebook(a social media platform ) as one of its platforms for opening an account. A customer would be able to initiate the process involved in opening an account with them by making use of Facebook.

Why Facebook? Well Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites in Nigeria and there are already millions of Nigerians registered on it. It only makes sense that a bank like GTBank should ride on that platform and connect with people on a different level.

It is not a complete process for opening an account with GTBank though but it allows you to first initiate the process in order to save you time associated with opening an account and also let you know what you need to do even before reaching the bank's branch. I think this is a good innovation.

You can initiate the opening of an account as a student, worker, business man or even company on GTBank's Facebook and although you will have to complete the process by visiting the bank, it sure saves you some time.

What you will need:
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A Facebook account
Internet connection
GTBank Facebook page

How to do it
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- Simply log into your Facebook account
- Go to GTbank facebook page at facebook.com/gtbank
- Click on the Open an account link
- Select an account type e.g. GTCrea8, GTSave, Current or others
- Enter your email address and your location
- Click on continue
- Allow GTBank to access your profile when the popup windows comes on
- Confirm your personal details
- Click on continue
- Submit your registration
- Print or Make a note of you transaction code(TC)
- Complete your registration at any bank branch after 2 weeks using your TC.

Completing your registration at the bank
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After you are through with the online registration at Facebook, allow around 2 weeks to pass and then visit your bank to complete the process using the following things:

- Proof of address: PHCN bill, Water bill or other recent utility bill
- Personal identification: Driver's license, student id, international passport
- 2 passport photographs
- Transaction code

Once you provide you transaction code to the customer service, he/she would be able to quickly access the details you've already submitted on Facebook and this would speed up your account opening process.

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Aduke on Friday June 28, 2013 at 22:36:32:

Felix
Thanks a lot for your informative blog.
I wanted to ask whether you know what the process of opening a fixed deposit account in GTB is?. I have a current and savings account with them and want to take the opportunity of fixed tenures to earn some interest over a period of time. Thanks.





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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Friday June 28, 2013 at 22:36:32:

@Aduke, opening a fixed deposit account is quite easy if you already have a savings or current account with them. In your case, all you probably need to do is fill an application form or just write an application letter.

So the 3 things you need to do are
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- first ensure you have good capital in the account e.g. N200,000+
- Inquire what the current rate for fixed deposit is from customer service
- Apply for a fixed deposit account formally indicating your capital, time period and agreed rate


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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by OCHIJENU TENIMU on Tuesday July 16, 2013 at 8:56:23:

i like to bank with you people




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Wumi on Tuesday July 16, 2013 at 12:49:24:

Please,how can I open a current account easily with Access bank or GTB?
Thanks.





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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Tuesday July 16, 2013 at 12:49:24:

Personally, I think Access would be easier


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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Mike on Tuesday August 13, 2013 at 24:5:52:

What is the difference




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Salako David on Saturday September 7, 2013 at 16:26:19:

How Can I Open Account With My Facebook Profile




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Saturday September 7, 2013 at 16:26:19:

Just go to GTBank's facebook page and click to sign up. It is easy.


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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by farouk yusufsagagi on Tuesday September 17, 2013 at 10:21:58:

I need to open account




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by abubakar on Tuesday September 17, 2013 at 20:8:16:

i would .lllike to open an account ..




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Ibrahim on Tuesday September 17, 2013 at 20:46:37:

Can i use bussines i.d card.or not




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Dike Esther on Wednesday October 2, 2013 at 10:43:51:

please i am 17 years and wil be leavin the country this month to school at russia.how can i open an account in gtbank which can be accessible over there? I have an international passport but my main problem is that I wil be 18 next year but I am leaving this year.thank you




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Wednesday October 2, 2013 at 10:43:51:

First of all, you are not yet 18 and so can't open an account by yourself except through your parents or guardian.

Just tell your parents to open a kiddies account on your behalf and then also apply for internet banking and a mastercard debit card.

You should then be able to access the account online using internet banking as well as withdraw or make payments using your debit card on P.O.S. machines and ATMs.

You may also




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by PRINCE ADEMOLA on Saturday October 5, 2013 at 9:21:2:

I NEED NEW ACCOUNT




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by ibrahim on Sunday October 13, 2013 at 15:30:44:

Please i cant be able to open an account online.




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Deoptimist on Wednesday October 16, 2013 at 4:27:0:

How is mobile money transfer done in GTB?




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by yusuf mariam kehinde on Friday November 8, 2013 at 21:14:30:

Pls I open an account today at 1:30 to 2:00pm, and my account no doesn't sent to me since that time and how do I get my (ATM)




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Hauwa idris on Tuesday November 19, 2013 at 11:9:13:

I rearly aprecieat this method but how can i open a kiddies account




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Ajoke on Friday November 29, 2013 at 7:17:24:

How do I open domiciliary account because I'm leaving in U.S.A.





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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Friday November 29, 2013 at 7:17:24:

You can send an email with copies of your scanned documents to your preferred bank. They'd be able to connect with your from there.


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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Omotolani on Thursday December 5, 2013 at 7:39:7:

Am nt yet 17 and i want to open account




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by inspired on Saturday December 21, 2013 at 16:44:24:

please how can i open an account to Gtbank without the tender of any id type, cos i couldnt find my national Id card... so i dnt av any




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Kolum Kelvin on Monday December 30, 2013 at 10:39:38:

I have done my own registration but some informations are left out but i send it shall just waiting for your reply in my email addres.




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by adelakun on Monday January 20, 2014 at 21:26:57:

Thanks I hv an account with u But I do online busness {nairabeting} and I mistekly changed my name so pls now I won to transfer my money to my bank is it possible for me to change my account name in GTB or i open new account pls




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Monday January 20, 2014 at 21:26:57:

I wonder why you changed your name. You need to use your real name when doing business or opening a bank account. What you should do is open a bank account with your real name. It can be hard changing your bank account name without an affidavit or something like that and to open a new account with a new name, I wonder what documentation you'd use to prove that.


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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Funmilola on Saturday March 1, 2014 at 14:47:21:

I want to open a bank act and i do nt av a national i.d card.how do i go abt it?




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Funmilola on Saturday March 1, 2014 at 14:47:21:

I want to open a bank act and i do nt av a national i.d card.how do i go abt it?




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Saturday March 1, 2014 at 14:47:21:

@Funmi, go for a GTBank instant savings account. It only requires you passport photo.


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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Okoli Catherine ifeyinwa on Sunday March 2, 2014 at 17:36:50:

How can i open the bank online because i dnt have account in this verry bank



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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Sunday March 2, 2014 at 17:36:50:

Just go to their Facebook page as I've already mentioned and click on the button that says open an account.


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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Kudus on Wednesday April 2, 2014 at 1:30:54:

Please mr felix i need to create a gtb account but the problem i have is the money will be sent online cos am into online stuff WHICH TYPE OF ACCOUNT DO I CREATE AND WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS???




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix okoli on Wednesday April 2, 2014 at 1:30:54:

Well you can open a bank account almost immediately online using the Facebook service. Just go to the page and go to apps and you'd be able to open an account even without visiting the bank. You need to open the gtbank Instant savings account.


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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by OPEYEMI on Thursday April 17, 2014 at 16:31:7:

WHAT IF I DON'T HAVE STUDENT ID CARD





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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by abdul on Thursday April 24, 2014 at 11:29:57:

Thanks for the guide line





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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by drake on Wednesday May 14, 2014 at 18:54:50:

How can I print out my transaction code
I have already registered



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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Lovey on Wednesday July 2, 2014 at 9:47:11:

i dont ave student identity card how am i going to do it




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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by JOHN AKINOLA on Saturday July 19, 2014 at 8:44:33:

can i use my naira mastercard internationally if yes how for i have used it in many occasion and didn't work

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Saturday July 19, 2014 at 8:44:33:

Tell your bank to activate it for international use and they would do it.

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by magaji shafiu on Thursday July 31, 2014 at 10:13:57:

I like your bank

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by nikki. bamidele on Tuesday August 5, 2014 at 10:17:33:

How do people outside the country open account at gtbank.

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Felix Okoli on Tuesday August 5, 2014 at 10:17:33:

You can make use of GTBank's Non Resident banking Service. Checkout here: http://gtbank.com/personalbanking/24-services/296-non-resident-nigerian-service

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by AKINDELE ISAIAH EDA on Tuesday August 5, 2014 at 19:16:26:

I WANT TO OPENING GT BANK ACCOUNT NO

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by drake on Tuesday August 26, 2014 at 13:39:40:

how do i get my transaction code?

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by SALAMI on Friday September 12, 2014 at 22:50:52:

i need GT BANK ACCOUNT

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by emmanuel ugochukwu on Thursday April 9, 2015 at 9:38:37:

i need an account

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Edikan George. on Sunday July 12, 2015 at 12:43:8:

please what are the requirements for student account

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Re: How to Open a GTBank account online using Facebook Reply by Michael on Sunday December 6, 2015 at 6:37:21:

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