Nigeria’s foreign exchange reserves fell $427.14 million this month, data from the Nigerian Central Bank showed on Monday. This is due to the fact that the currency crisis in the country was exacerbated by the shortage of new naira banknotes.
According to CBN’s foreign exchange reserves movement data, foreign exchange reserves, which stood at $37.21 billion as of January 18, decreased…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered banks to start collecting the old N500 and N1,000 notes from the public with immediate effect.
It, however, pegged the maximum amount the banks can collect at N500,000.
The CBN maintained that the old currencies were no more legal…
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has said that Point of Sale agents who charge above N200 for the CBN cash swap programme will be arrested and jailed when caught.
He said this on Tuesday during a visit to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to…
New Naira: Falana fires CBN for failing to comply with Supreme Court ruling.
February 14, 2023
Rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has lambasted the Central Bank of Nigeria for allegedly flouting the interim injunction of the Supreme Court suspending the implementation of the February 10 deadline on the use of the old banknotes.
The CBN had moved the deadline earlier set for the expiration of the legal tender status of the old notes from January 31 to February 10…
The Central Bank of Nigeria seized N365.24m counterfeit notes between 2016 and 2020,
The figures were collated from the CBN’s annual report for each year available on its website.
The 2017 CBN annual report noted that the bank seized 77,576 pieces of counterfeit banknotes…
Old Naira Note: We will follow the decision of the Supreme Court. FG said
February 10, 2023
The Federal Government has said it would obey the ruling of the Supreme Court suspending the February 10 deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on the exchange of naira notes.
Recall that the apex court in its ruling on Wednesday, suspended the February 10…
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 Central Bank of Nigeria may fine banks hoarding new notes a sum of N5m and members of the public selling the new notes N50,000.
This was based on the Central Bank of Nigeria Act of 2007 and the Banks and other Financial Institutions Act of 2020.
According to the Banks…
Nigerian Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele urged Nigerians to understand, adding that the revised banknotes would be circulated and made available.
Apex Bank also ended commission sales on Feb. 10, pledging to replace old Naira banknotes with a new approach.
On Friday…
The Central Bank of Nigeria has confirmed that the January 31 deadline for the old 200, 500 and 1,000 naira banknotes has not changed.
This is due to calls coming in from various parties asking and asking that Apex Bank change its reasoning and extend the deadline to give Nigerians more time to store their old banknotes in custodians known as commercial banks.
But Apex Bank resisted the pressure…