{"id":12620,"date":"2023-03-13T13:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12620"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:42:02","slug":"cbn-directed-banks-to-dispense-and-accept-old-naira-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12620","title":{"rendered":"CBN Directed Banks To Dispense And Accept Old Naira Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo confirmed on Monday that the Central Bank of Nigeria has directed <\/span><span class=\"s2\">commercial<\/span> <span class=\"s2\">banks<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> to <\/span><span class=\"s2\">dispense<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and accept old naira notes as <\/span><span class=\"s2\">deposits<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Soludo, a former CBN governor, made this known in a statement he posted on his social media handles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He explained that the Governor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele gave the <\/span><span class=\"s2\">directive<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> at a Banker\u2019s Committee meeting on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He added that Emefiele <\/span><span class=\"s2\">personally<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> confirmed the directive to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to him, residents should report banks refusing to accept <\/span><span class=\"s2\">the old<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> notes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cCommercial banks have been directed by the Central Bank to dispense old <\/span><span class=\"s2\">currency notes<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and also to receive the same deposits from customers. Tellers at commercial banks are to generate the codes for deposits, and there is <\/span><span class=\"s2\">no limit<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> to the number of times an individual or company can make deposits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Governor of the CBN gave the directive at a Bankers\u2019 Committee meeting held on Sunday, 12th March 2023. The Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele, personally confirmed the above to me during a phone conversation on Sunday night. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cResidents of Anambra are therefore advised to freely accept and transact their businesses with the old currency notes (N200, N500; and N1,000) and the new notes\u201d, the statement <\/span><span class=\"s2\">contained<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo confirmed on Monday that the Central Bank of Nigeria has directed commercial banks to dispense and accept old naira notes as deposits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,6325],"class_list":["post-12620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cbn","tag-old-naira-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12622,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions\/12622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}