CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · History & Society

TAJBank

Nigerian banking company

Layered newspapers, civic records and oral-history reels arranged as chronological evidence
History and societyInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ97516275
Source-derived summary

TAJBank Limited, is Nigeria's second Non-interest bank, operating under Islamic banking principles, established in Nigeria with its headquarters in Abuja, the capital city of the country.

The Bank operates 45 branches, 5 cash centers and provides regular ATM services as well as Online, Mobile, USSD (*898#) and SMS banking services.

History

The institution was founded in 2019, as TAJBank Limited. On 3 July 2019, TAJBank received a license from the Central Bank of Nigeria, the national banking regulator, to operate as a regional bank. On 2 December 2019, the institution commenced business as TAJBank Limited in offices and branches in Abuja.

On 12 December 2019, TAJBank opened its second branch at Kano in the process of expanding to other urban centers in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. TAJBank recorded its early success in August 2022 culminating in the issuance of a National License by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The Bank also opened a branch in Sokoto State on the 24th of August 2020. TAJBank has over 38(Thirty-eight) branches nationwide.

On February 14, 2023 TAJBank listed its N10billion Mudarabah Sukuk issuance at the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX)

Ownership

The Board of Directors of the bank are listed below.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “TAJBank” as nigerian banking company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around TAJBank, Nigerian and banking.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2022, 2020, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with TAJBank, Nigerian and banking providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “TAJBank”, the useful work is to connect “nigerian banking company” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q97516275. The first chronological checks are 2019, 2022, 2020 and 2023.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
Verify next

Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “TAJBank”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow TAJBank primary sources, TAJBank archive and TAJBank research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “TAJBank”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from TAJBank” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.