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    Friday, March 24, 2023

    CBN Directs Banks To Open On Saturday, Sunday

    Olufemi Adeyemi 

    The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has confirmed the evacuation of banknotes from its vaults to commercial banks across the country.

    As part of a coordinated effort to ease the circulation of banknotes of various denominations, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has confirmed the evacuation of banknotes from its vaults to commercial banks across the country

    The CBN has also directed all commercial banks to open for operation on Saturdays and Sundays.

    Isa AbdulMumin, acting director, corporate communications department of the CBN, disclosed this in Abuja, on Friday, March 24, 2023, stating that a substantial amount of money, in various denominations, had been received by the commercial banks for onward circulation to their respective customers.

    According to him, the CBN had directed all banks to load their Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) 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,” he noted, adding that the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, would personally lead teams to monitor the level of compliance by the banks in various locations across the country.

    He, therefore, urged Nigerians to be patient as the current situation would ease soon with the injection of more banknotes into circulation.

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