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July 20, 2019 No Responses

CBN Partners Churches, Mosques On Financial Literacy

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday said it is in partnership with churches and mosques in the promotion of financial literacy in the country. The bank’s Director, Consumer Protection Department, Mr Kofo Salam-Alada made this known in an interview...

June 25, 2019 No Responses

Emefiele Explains CBN’s 5-Year Agenda

You would all recall that on 05 June 2014; following my assumption of office as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, I addressed a similar gathering to share with you my vision for my first term in ¬office....

June 19, 2019 No Responses

CBN Injects $210m Into Forex Market

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has again injected the sum of $210 million into the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market. Figures obtained from the CBN on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, indicated that authorized dealers in the wholesale segment of the...

June 4, 2019 No Responses

Emefiele To Unfold New Roadmap For Economy

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, on Monday began his second tenure, following the confirmation of his re-appointment by the Senate on May 16 According to a statement by the Director Corporate Communications, Mr Isaac...

May 29, 2019 No Responses

CBN Lifts Forex Market With $205m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, injected the sum of $205 million into the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market, in its continued push to sustain liquidity in the sector. Figures obtained from the CBN indicated that...

May 22, 2019 No Responses

CBN To Restrict Banks Access To Bonds, Treasury Bills

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is to restrict Banks access to government securities. Speaking at the end of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in Abuja, the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele explained that MPC also directed CBN to initiate....

May 16, 2019 No Responses

CBN: Nigeria’s Outstanding Domestic Debt Stands At N12.4b

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday said the country’s outstanding domestic debt stood at N12.44 billion as at December 2018. This was contained in the bank’s 2018 Annual Activity Report released by the Financial Markets Department, CBN, and...

May 13, 2019 No Responses

‘No Monies Missing, Stolen In CBN’

The Management of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been notified of a purported audio recording of selective conversations amongst the Governor, Deputy Governor and some Senior Officials. Contrary to the headline-grabbing narrative that the discussion was...

May 10, 2019 No Responses

Naira Remains Stable At Parallel Market

The Naira on Thursday remained stable at the parallel market in Lagos, exchanging at N359.3 to the dollar. The Pound Sterling and the Euro traded at N472 and N402, respectively. At the Bureau De Change (BDC) window, the naira was...

May 8, 2019 No Responses

CBN Lifts Forex Market With $205m

The interbank segment of the Foreign Exchange Market has received a boost of $205 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) following the sales concluded on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Figures obtained from the CBN indicated that authorized dealers...

April 29, 2019 No Responses

CBN To Withdraw Dirty, Mutilated Notes

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unveiled fresh plans to withdraw from circulation dirty and mutilated notes. According to the apex Bank, a large proportion of the N7.9 trillion pieces of naira notes in circulation are dirty, mutilated, unfit...

April 24, 2019 No Responses

CBN Records N718.0b, $1.1b From NCR In 2018

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that it recorded a huge leap in the value of financing statements under the National Collateral Registry (NCR) in the last five years from N487 billion and $20 million in 2017 to...

April 17, 2019 No Responses

CBN Lifts Forex Market With $210m

The interbank segment of the Foreign Exchange Market has received a boost of $210 million from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) following sales concluded on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. According to figures obtained from the Bank, authorized dealers in...

April 13, 2019 No Responses

CBN Boosts Anchor Borrowers Programme With N174. 48B

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it has so far cumulatively disbursed N174. 48 billion through 19 financial institutions under its Anchor Borrowers Programme since 2015. The Director, Corporate Communications Department of the bank, Mr Isaac Okoroafor st...