Tag: New Naira

Banking

Old naira: Commercial Banks to work Saturdays

The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced that commercial banks would work on Saturdays to receive the old Naira notes from customers.   The Leader of the CBN inspection team to Ebonyi State on new Naira notes, Kama Ukpai, said this during an enlightenment campaign to traders, on Friday at Eke Market, Afikpo.   Ukpai […]

News

CBN to sanction banks dispensing old notes

The Central Bank of Nigeria has stated that it would begin to sanction banks who are still dispensing the old naira notes. According to The PUNCH, this was disclosed by the Director of the Legal Services Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Kofo Salam-Alada, during a sensitisation event on the new naira notes […]

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New naira: Govs, Emefiele meet over policy

Wilson Adekumola Members of the Nigeria Governor’s Forum will on Thursday meet the Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele to discuss some of the bank’s recent policies. The NGF spokesperson, Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo said, in a statement on Tuesday night that “Governor’s plan to engage Emefiele on the economic and security implication of naira redesign and […]

Kogi residents lament scarcity of new naira note
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Kogi residents lament scarcity of new naira note

Oluwanifemi Ojo As the deadline issued on the old naira notes by the Central Bank of Nigeria draws closer, some of the Kogi State residents have lamented the scarcity of the new banknotes. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that most banks in Kogi State are yet to distribute the new note to the public […]

Banking

Load ATMs with new naira, CBN orders banks

The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered commercial banks across the country to comply with its earlier directive to dispense the new naira notes on their Automated Teller Machines.   The CBN director of currency operations, Ahmed Umar, in a statement on Monday, mandated all the banks to stop loading their ATMs with the old […]

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CBN halts ‘over-the-counter’ withdrawal of new notes

  The Central Bank of Nigeria has directed deposit money banks not to pay customers who make over-the-counter withdrawals of fresh naira notes. To guarantee that the money circulates across the country prior to the deadline of January 31, 2023, when the old notes will no longer be accepted as legal tender, the central bank […]

Kogi residents lament scarcity of new naira note
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New naira same as old notes, stains white surfaces – NSPM

  Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc has drawn attention to some of the new naira notes’ features in an effort to educate Nigerians who have voiced concerns about the notes’ quality. The company underlined the need to educate Nigerians about the new Naira’s attributes in a statement released on Friday and signed by NSPM’s […]

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Economy

New naira: Extend deadline, Senate urges CBN

The Senate has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria to extend the deadline for withdrawal of old Naira notes from the economy, fixed for January 31, 2023, to June 30, 2023.   CBN had announced in November that the old naira notes of N1,000, N500 and N200 denominations would be withdrawn from circulation by January […]

Economy

New naira: ATMs still dispensing old notes, report reveals

  Thirteen days after the issue of the freshly redesigned N200, N500, and N1,000 notes, and with 34 days till the old notes are no longer legal cash in the country, Automated Teller Machines in Lagos are yet to begin dispensing the new notes. According to Leadership, majority of Lagos’s ATMs are still distributing old […]

News

Banks run out of new naira, demand increases

  About 24 hours after the new naira notes officially entered circulation, reports revealed that banks have run out of the newly-printed denominations leading to increased demand. The shortage of the newly released naira notes stemmed from the limited amounts given to banks by the Central Bank of Nigeria. The newly redesigned N1,000, N500 and […]

Banking

VIDEO: Nigerian banks dispense new naira notes

Commercial banks have started dispensing the newly redesigned naira notes to over-the-counter customers.   Channels Television, on Thursday, reported that some banks in major cities across the country have begun dispensing the new notes to customers over the counter. The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, had on October 26, said the […]

Opinion

‘Why CBN must scrap new cash withdrawal policy’

The Coalition of South East Youth Leaders has rejected the new policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria to limit cash withdrawals.   Days ago, the apex bank had, in a bid to encourage cashless transactions, pegged cash withdrawals at N20,000 per day and N100,000 for individuals and N500,000/week for businesses.   The development has […]