- Fidelity Bank and other Nigerian banks have started adjusting working hours to enable customers to bring in old notes
- According to the bank via its Instagram page, it would extend working hours to 6 pm so depositors could bring in cash.
- Also, other banks in the country have towed similar steps following CBN directives
Amid the bickering between the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed and The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) governor, Godwin Emefiele, over the redesigning of naira notes, several banks have given deadlines to their customers to deposit old naira notes.
One of the banks, Fidelity Banks, announced via its Instagram page on Saturday, October 29, 2022, that its customers have until January 31, 2022, to deposit old naira notes or risk being rejected.