Ramadan: Chief Imam Urges CBN to Release More New Notes The Chief Imam of Nurul Yaqeen Jumma’at Mosque Life Camp, Abuja, Sheikh Yahya Al-Yolawi, on Friday called on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to release more redesigned naira notes as the months of Ramadan...

Bayelsa Residents Protest Over Rejection of Old N500, N1000 Notes Residents of Akenfa community, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, on Friday, took to the streets to protest the continued rejection of the old N500 and N1000 notes by traders in the state. The...

Kogi Gov't Orders Arrest of Persons Rejecting Old Notes The Kogi State Government on Friday ordered the arrest and prosecution of individuals and businesses rejecting the old naira notes. A statement by Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo congratulated Nigerians on the “historic ruling of the Supreme...

Customers Reject Deposit Conditions As Banks Dispense Old Notes More Commercial Banks have begun to dispense old N1,000 and N500 notes to their customers, about three days after a few banks started doing so. Findings revealed that Polaris Bank and First Bank had started to pay...

Companies, Consumers Taxes Hit N5.3tn – NBS The National Statistics Bureau data shows that consumers of goods and services and companies paid N5.34tn as taxes to the government in 2022. This represents a 42.14 per cent increase from the N3.76tn that was raised in 2021. The...

Open Banking: CBN Issues Guidelines for Financial Stability The Central Bank of Nigeria has issued operational guidelines for open banking to ensure stability in the nation’s financial system. The apex bank in a circular referenced, ‘PSM/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/043’, and dated March 7, 2023, said the guidelines would create...