By Nume Ekeghe Zenith Bank Plc has been ranked as the number one bank in Nigeria by tier-1 capital in the 2021 Top 1000 World Banks’ Ranking published by The Banker Magazine, a publication of the Financial Times Group of the United Kingdom. The bank, with a tier-1 capital of $2.64 billion, retained its ranking as the number one tier-1 bank in Nigeria for the third consecutive year. It, however, emerged as the 454th bank globally and the only Nigerian bank in the top 500. The bank, in a statement yesterday, said the ranking, which was published in July 2021 edition of the magazine, was based on the 2020 year-end tier-1 capital of banks globally.