REDESIGNED NAIRA NOTES ARE READY FOR ISSUANCE – EMEFIELE

 




 By Nkoyo Etim

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, revealed that the newly redesigned Naira notes are already in banks and ready for issuance.

 

According to a statement on CBN’s official twitter handle, Emefiele said so in Daura while on a visit to brief President Muhanmadu Buhari on the Naira redesign and the recently reintroduced cashless policy.

 

He said that the currency redesign and reintroduced cashless policies were not targeted at anybody but are for the good and development of the Nigerian economy.

 

He urged Nigerians to embrace the various electronic channels available for banking and financial service transactions in Nigeria.

 ” The CBN deferred the cashless policy severally to prepare and deepen Nigeria’s payments system infrastructure,” he said


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