Nigerians are currently running helter scelter over scarcity of New Naira notes, this is even as CBN Insists on the 31 January deadline.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila meanwhile has threatened to issue an arrest warrant on CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele over his refusal to honour the House Committee’s invitation to extend the deadline for the use of the new naira notes saga.
Commercial banks on Thursday were forced to shut down their ATMs over a shortage of the new banknotes in major cities, Warri, Lagos, Abuja, and Benin, Lead learnt.
Deposit Money Banks have been battling a shortage of old banknotes amid a directive by the CBN that lenders should load only their ATMs with the new notes.
This paper gathered that ATMs in the Central Business District, CBD, Kubwa, Gwarimpa, and Utako areas in Abuja were not dispensing cash.
It is the same situation in Ogun, Lagos, Warri, Port-Harcourt, and Benin as Nigerians scramble with the pains of getting the new naira notes.
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