The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has accepted culpability for the resultant chaos of the naira redesign and cash withdrawal policy, saying it didn’t anticipate them.
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Recall that angry Nigerians have been staging protests and attacking banks across the country amid difficulties in accessing their cash to carry out regular transactions.
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Reacting to the development, a CBN Deputy Governor…
The Federal Government said yesterday that Nigeria Air will soon start flying, having got the aircraft ready and painted in its colours.
The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal…
Old Naira: Supreme Court decision overturned, invoke Executive Order- CSO's Buhari said.
February 9, 2023
The Civil Society Central Coordinating Council, the apex body of all civil society groups in Nigeria, has rejected the exparte order made by the Supreme Court restraining the CBN and President Muhammadu Buhari from terminating the use of the old N200, N500 and N1000 bank…
President Muhammadu Buhari has received the Governor Godwin Emefiele of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in Aso Rock, Abuja.
The meeting is holding hours after the Supreme Court, on Wednesday, ruled to stop the February 10 deadline for the validity of three old naira notes.
Recall that an interim injunction after an ex parte filed by Kogi, Kaduna and Zamfara state governments was granted by a…
Oil marketers, on Wednesday, said the supply of Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, had not yet stabilise and this was why queues were still prevalent in many parts of Nigeria, aside Abuja where it had reduced.
Reacting to the statement of the Group Chief…
As the shortage of new banknotes continues, more and more banks are closing.
February 9, 2023
As the naira shortage continued, more banks began closing their branches.
Even on Wednesday there were still long queues outside the ATMs of many commercial banks in Lagos, Ogun, Abuja and elsewhere. As the February 10 deadline for the old N1000, N500 and N200 banknotes…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained the Federal Government from implementing the Friday deadline for the currency swap.
A seven-man panel of the apex court led by Justice John Okoro, in a unanimous ruling, granted an interim injunction restraining the Federal Government, the Central Bank of Nigeria and commercial banks from implementing the Friday terminal date for the old naira notes.
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The stock market lost N37 billion on Tuesday after a six-day rally that ended with a take profit bottoming Nigerian Exchange Limited.
The Jeonju index closed at 54,299.76 points, down 67.98 points and 0.13% from the previous trading day. Similarly, the total market…
Sterling Bank said it has waived all personal account transaction fees in solidarity with customers facing a new naira shortage. Sterling Bank CEO Abubakar Suleiman made the announcement to clients via email. Here is part of an email to Sterling customers: Feb 6, 2023…
On Monday, the Lagos state government began a two-week training session for 50 city planners on how to effectively use drones to monitor land encroachment and other heinous activities. This is stated in a statement released by a spokesman for the Physical Planning Permitting Agency of the State of Abimbola-Umeh. He said that his party had conducted training in accordance with the state policy on…