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January 14, 2019 No Responses

Group Tasks CBN, MTN On $8.13b Out-Of-Court Settlement

A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Human and Environmental Development Agenda Resource Centre (HEDA) has challenged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and telecommunication giant, MTN Nigeria to make public more details on the $8.13 billion out-of-court settlement. The Group said it...

January 9, 2019 No Responses

CBN Boosts Forex Market With $210m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has continued its intervention in the inter-bank sector of the Foreign Exchange market by injecting another sum of $210 million into the forex market. In the forex trading on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, the...

January 5, 2019 No Responses

Nigeria Injects $210m In First Forex Intervention In 2019

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday, January 4, 2019, made its first intervention in the inter-bank sector of the Foreign Exchange market for 2019 with a total sum of $210 million injected into the wholesale segment and other...

October 4, 2018 No Responses

CBN Boosts FOREX Market With $210

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 Wednesday, October 3, 2018, indicate that authorized dealers in the wholesale segment...

September 26, 2018 No Responses

MPC Communique

Background The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met on the 24th and 25th of September, 2018 and evaluated developments in the global and domestic economic and financial environments in the first eight months of 2018, as well as the outlook for the rest...

September 19, 2018 No Responses

CBN Acquires 2.4b FG’s Shares In NSPM

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bureau of Public Enterprises(BPE) have signed an agreement for the sale of the Federal Government’s 12.4 billion shares in Nigerian Security Printing and Minting company (NSPM) to CBN. The ceremony was chaired...

September 19, 2018 No Responses

Again, CBN Lifts FOREX Market With $210m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has again intervened in the inter-bank Foreign Exchange Market to the tune of $210 million. According to the figures obtained from the CBN on Tuesday, September 18, 2018, the Bank offered $100million to authorized...

August 30, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Sanctions Standard Chartered, Stanbic IBTC, Diamond Bank, Citibank, MTN

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has imposed sanctions totaling N5.87 billion on four banks under its regulatory purview and asked same to refund the sum of $8,134,312,397.63 for what it described as ‘flagrant violation of extant laws and regulations...

August 27, 2018 No Responses

Farmers Seek Effective Implementation, Monitoring Of CBN’s Credit Policy

Farmers across the country have applauded the nine per cent interest rate credit policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the agriculture sector, saying it will help boost production if adequately implemented. Some of them who spoke with...

August 24, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Unveils Agenda For Long-Term Credit To Agriculture, Manufacturing

To consolidate and sustain the nation’s economic recovery, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is to increase the flow of credit to the real sector of the economy. It will be recalled that the CBN Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), at...

August 15, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Lifts Forex Market With $210m

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has sustained its intervention in the inter-bank foreign exchange market by injecting yet another sum of $210,000,000 into various sums of the market on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. At Tuesday’s trading, the Bank offered...

May 24, 2018 No Responses

CBN Uplifts Forex Market With $210 Million

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has made available the sum of $210million, to meet customers’ requests in various segments of the foreign exchange market. In its quest to meet customers’ needs in the various segments of the market, the...

May 11, 2018 No Responses

CBN: Banks Are Sabotaging Our Efforts On New Notes

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has blamed commercial banks for sabotaging its efforts in replacing mutilated notes with new ones in the country. Mr Isaac Okorafor, Acting Director, Communications Department of the CBN, made the allegation in Lagos on...

May 9, 2018 No Responses

‘Banks Must Repay Excess Charges With Interest’

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said any bank that deducts monies illegally from a customer’s account for products and services would be forced to refund the money to the customer with interest. Mr Fada David, Consumer Complaints Management, Consumer...