E- Banking is a process of transacting banking operations electronically. It is a process of using electronic devices in carrying out banking operations. E banking does away with most visits to the bank. It is a state-of-the-art-service that is just beginning to take off among banking customers especially in Yobe state. Indeed E-banking has the major potential for future development as it allows customers to do most of the things they do at the bank like make balance enquiries, payment, transfer of funds, pay bills over the internet. It also offers banking services outside of normal opening hours. In fact, it has effectively “opened” banks for business twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week (Rubino 2000).

E-banking has become increasingly prevalent, employed by financial institutions in Yobe state to reduce costs associated with having personnel, serve customers physically, shorten processing period increase speed, improve the flexibility of business transactions and provide better services for all (Shin and Fang 2004). E-banking services being rendered by commercial banks in Yobe state include online/internet banking, E-payment, Automated Teller machines (ATMs), personal computer (PC) Flash card/Telephone banking, Electronic fund transfer, Email, among others. These services in the banking sector are rendered to customers.

A customer is any one who makes buying decision of product or services from an individual or organization. Osuala (1998) explained that a customer is one who makes the actual purchase decision. Service is at the heart of the business of banking. E-banking has played, is playing and will continue to play a major role in the delivery of quality service in the banking industry- (Irechukwu 2000) Financial institutions have used e-banking to aggressively and innovatively create the requisite competitive advantage and dramatically improve the quality of service delivery to their customers. It does mean that the success of any business is dependent on the customers’ satisfaction with the products or services.

In Yobe state, e-banking services are provided by the following Commercial banks viz, First bank plc, Unity bank, United bank for Africa (UBA), Union bank, Intercontinental bank, Oceanic bank, Zenith bank, Diamond bank, Guarantee Trust bank, Afrik bank, Fin bank, P H B, and First City monumental bank (FCMB). The success of these banks depends on the satisfaction of the customers. It is often said that understanding the motivation, expectation and desires, lay the foundations of how best to serve the customers and this can provide information on making improvements in the nature of business.

It is expected that with the provision of e banking by the commercial banks to the customer services that the quality of service rendered to customers would have drastically improved. Although, banks and their employees in Yobe state claim that e banking has improved the quality of their customer services tremendously, customers still complain about the quality of services rendered to them. The customers still believe that there is a lot to be done, if customer’ satisfaction is to be enhanced. According to the customers, they have not really enjoyed the benefit of e banking, because they still spend hours in the banks for simple counter retard transactions like deposit, cash transfer and even cash withdrawal. Despite the provision of e banking, there are lots of customer traffic or patronage in most of the commercial banks in Yobe state.

It is, however, disheartening to observe that even after the provision of e banking to customer services, some problems are still prevalent, bearing in mind that the primary objectives of e banking are to improve the quality of customer services.

In the light of these enormous commitments on the part of commercial banks, it becomes pertinent more than ever before for them to evolve an efficient and reliable e-banking component to be able to survive and meet up with the modern banking challenges. Since the provision of e-banking to customers in Yobe state is yet to meet the expectations and satisfaction of customers, there is, therefore, an urgent need to

determine the important to of e-banking on the customer services. These will identify areas of strength and weakness in services rendered and hence yields information needed for improvement.

Statement of the Problem

Banks play a major role in the social, political and economic development of a community. They provide services that help to enhance business activities by way of granting loans, shares, overdraft, money transfer, deposit, and withdrawal among others. Agene in Awoniyi (2008) reported that banking services require mathematics, manipulations, by way of calculations, receipt and payment of money to customers. Thus, making banking job, very tedious, time consuming and tiring. Banks must think of itself as never before as buying customers’ as doing the thing that will make people continue to transact business with them. They must put in place strategies for meeting and exceeding the customer needs and expectations because today’s customers are more sophisticated and approached by many competitions (Kotler 2001)

Della in Awoniyi (2008) observed that bank activities make too much demand on customers by spending too much time queuing up to pay in or withdraw money. These constraints among others made banks to adopt e- banking as a way of improving services to their numerous customers. E-banking services are meant to overcome the shortcoming of traditional methods of banking. E banking services entail the use of electronic device such as computer and Internet to render or aid the services rendered by manual traditional methods of banking.

In Yobe state, with the provision of e-banking to customer services by banks, customers still complain of delayed services. It takes hours to effect a simple transaction and the hall is always full of customers waiting to either pay in or withdrawal money from their accounts. The situation is even worse during festive period or when workers’ salaries and other emoluments are paid to workers at the end of the month.

Woherem (2000) stated that although, the adoption of e banking by banks has made some changes in time consumption in banks, the changes do not reflect the accurate service that is expected from the banks. Some customers see banking activities in Yobe state as time consuming or wanting. The problem of this study, therefore, is to determine the important to of e banking on customer services in Yobe state as perceived by Bank Customers.

Purpose of the Study

The major purpose of the study is to determine the important to of e- banking on the provision of banking system in Yobe state as perceived by bank customers.

Specifically, the study determined:

1.                  The extent commercial banks utilize e-banking to important to customer services in Yobe State

2.                  The extent the adoption of e- banking has important tod the quality of customer services.

3.                  The extent the utilization of e-banking has important tod customer patronage through customer services provided by banks in Yobe State

4.                  To what extent the utilization of e-banking has important to on customers satisfaction with the customer services provided by banks in Yobe state.

5.                  The extent customers benefit from the provision of customer services through e banking in Yobe state.

6.                  Ascertained the problems faced by banks in the provision of customer services through e-banking in Yobe state.

Significance of the Study

The findings of this study will be very useful to commercial banks, bank customers the central bank, ministry of commerce and industry and the society. The findings of this study would enable commercial banks, employees and employers to identify the problems confronting customers in obtaining effective and efficient customer

services through e banking and how to eliminate or at least reduce such problems. This is because today’s customers would continue to patronize only the banks that would be most conversant to them in terms of easy transaction. Also, the commercial banks as the hub of the nation economy would benefit from this study as the study would enable them understand how to impress and retain their customers by providing the relevant and current information technology – e-banking customer services in their banks

The commercial banks customers would benefit from the findings of the work as the study would reveal the current component of e-banking, and how e-banking customers services could be used to facilitate easy and better banking operations.

The Central Bank as the supervisory body to all the commercial banks would benefit from the study, for the study would reveals how effective and efficient e-banking customer services provided by commercial banks. Also, the study would equally reveals the problems encountered in the provision of e-banking customer services. This would enable the central bank to formulate policy to regulate, supervise and control the activities of commercial banks to provide better services to their numerous customers, hence pave way for social, political and economic development of Nigeria.

The ministry of commerce and industry would benefit from this study as the study would invent, the current problems encountered by the commercial banks in the provision of e-banking customer services in Yobe State. This would enable the ministry to create a conducive enabling environment for commercial bank to operate and to give the best e-banking customers’ services to their customers in the state.

The findings of this study would also be useful to students and researchers who may be interested in carrying out further research in this or related topic.

Research Questions

The following research questions are formulated to guide the study.

1.To what extent do commercial banks utilize e banking  important to customer services in Yobe state?

2. To what extent does the adoption of e banking important to the quality of customer services in Yobe state?

3.To what extent does the utilization of e banking important to customer patronage through customer services provided by banks in Yobe State?

4.To what extent does the utilization of e banking important to customers’ satisfaction with the customer services provided by banks in Yobe State?

5.To what extent do customers benefit from the provision of customer services through e banking provided by banks in Yobe State?

6.What are the problems faced by banks in providing customers services through e-banking in Yobe State.

Hypotheses

The following Null hypotheses will be tested at 0.05 level of significance.

HQ1.   There is no significant difference in the mean responses of bank employees and customers on the satisfaction of e-banking to customer services provided by banks in Yobe State.

HQ2.   There is no significant difference in the mean responses of banks’ employees and customers on benefit of e- banking on customer services provided by banks in Yobe State.

HQ3.   There is no significant difference in the mean responses of bank employees and customers on the problems faced by banks in the provision of customer services through e banking in Yobe State.

Delimitation of the Study

The study is restricted to the important to of e banking in the provision of customer services in Yobe State as perceived by bank customers. The study is limited to commercial banks operating in Yobe State. The study does not cover financial institutions other than commercial banks.

The study will not assess other areas of commercial banking operations such as profitability, administration and management.

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