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February 12, 2020 No Responses

CBN Boosts Forex Market With $210m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has injected the sum of 210 million dollars into the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market to boost liquidity in the sector. The bank’s Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor made this known in a...

January 24, 2020 No Responses

ABCON To CBN: Sustain Robust FX Policy In 2020

The President, Association of Bureau De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON), Alhaji Aminu Gwadabe, on Thursday urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to sustain its robust foreign exchange policy in 2020. According to Gwadabe, the stability of the naira...

January 18, 2020 No Responses

CBN Pledges Support For Cotton Farmers

The Central Bank of Nigeria, (CBN) has assured members of National Cotton Association of Nigeria (NACOTAN) Ekiti chapter of its financial assistance to enable them embark on massive production of cotton in the state. A Representative of CBN, Mr Olutayo...

December 18, 2019 No Responses

CBN To Sanction Oil Palm Investment Saboteurs

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday threatened to suspend the account of any person hiding under the ECOWAS Trade Liberalisation Scheme to sabotage the federal government’s investment in reviving the palm oil sector. The Governor of the Bank,....

December 13, 2019 No Responses

CBN: Refund To Bank Customers Stand At N76.7b,$20.9m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says the worth of money refund to bank customers as at Nov. 30 stood at N76.75 billion and 20.90 million dollars. Mr Kofo-Abdulsalam Alada, the Director, Consumer Protection Department (CPD) of CBN, said this...

November 30, 2019 No Responses

CBN Injects $323.5m, CNY 17.9m Into Retail SMIS

In its last intervention for the month of November, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday, November 29, 2019, made an intervention of $323.5million in the retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) and CNY 17.9million in the spot and...

November 22, 2019 No Responses

CBN: Nigeria Imports $600m Cassava Derivatives Annually

Nigeria imports cassava derivatives valued at about 600million dollars annually, Mr Godwin Emefiele, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said Emefiele disclosed this at a meeting With State Governors of Cassava Producing States in Abuja on Thursd...

November 5, 2019 No Responses

CBN Implores African Countries On Human Capital Development

As part of measures to compete globally, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday urged African countries to invest in human capital development. The CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, gave the advice at the ongoing African Economic Congress (AEC)...

October 19, 2019 No Responses

CBN Injects $325.5m Into Retail Market

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has injected 325.5million dollars in the retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) and CNY14million in the spot and short tenored forwards segment of the inter-bank foreign market. The bank’s Director, Corporate Comm...

October 15, 2019 No Responses

Firm Tackles CBN Over $285m Supreme Court Judgment

A communications firm, Interstella Communications Limited has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to obey a Supreme Court order by paying them $285 million judgment sum for alleged breach of contract. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that...

September 19, 2019 No Responses

CBN Approves Three New Payment Service Banks

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Wednesday granted approvals-in-principle (AIP) to three new Payment Service Banks (PSBs) in the country. The CBN spokesperson, Isaac Okorafor, said the new institutions, issued approvals in principle to operate as Payment Service...

September 11, 2019 No Responses

CBN Boosts Forex Market With $210M

The e interbank segment of the Foreign Exchange Market has received another boost of $210 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) following sales concluded on Tuesday, September 10, 2019. Figures obtained from the CBN indicated that authorized dealers.....

September 7, 2019 No Responses

CBN Injects $321.11m, CNY 33.3m Into Retail SMIS

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has made another intervention in the Retail Secondary Market Intervention Sales (SMIS) to the tune of $321, 112,537.31. Figures obtained from the CBN on Friday,September 6, 2019, indicated that the sum of CNY33, 304,365.10...

September 4, 2019 No Responses

EFCC Seeks CBN’s Support In Fight Against Corruption

The Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has solicited the support of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in the fight against corruption, noting that the apex bank’s strategic position in the financial sec...