Naira Scarcity: CBN directs commercial banks to open for operations on Saturdays, Sundays
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, has directed all commercial banks to open for operation on Saturdays and Sundays due to the scarcity of Naira across the country.
The CBN governor also directed the banks to load their Automated Teller Machines (ATM), as well as conduct physical operations in the banking halls through the weekends.
The governor said as part of a coordinated effort to ease the circulation of banknotes of various denominations.
The apex bank also confirmed the evacuation of banknotes from its vaults to commercial banks across the country.
This latest development was disclosed in a statement signed by CBN Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Isa AbdulMumin, in Abuja, on Friday afternoon.
The statement noted that a substantial amount of money, in various denominations, had been received by commercial banks, for onward circulation to their respective customers, even as it prevailed on banks, to conduct physical operations in banking halls through the weekends.
Excerpts of the statement read: “The CBN has directed all banks to load their Automated Teller Machines, as well as conduct physical operations in the banking halls through the weekends.
“Branches of commercial banks will operate on Saturdays and Sundays to attend to customers’ cash needs.
“The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, would personally lead teams to monitor the level of compliance by the banks in various locations across the country,” it stressed.
The bank, therefore, urged Nigerians to be patient, as the current situation would ease soon, with the injection of more banknotes into circulation.
Newsflash Nigeria reports that authorities have stepped up efforts to end the biting currency scarcity that has inflicted pain on millions of bank customers nationwide, after a Supreme Court ruling, and a proposed protest by Nigeria Labour Congress, scheduled for next week.
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