New Naira Notes: CBN threatens to sanction banks over non-compliance

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has on Thursday, randomly paid an unscheduled visit to some commercial banks in Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State to ascertain level of compliance to its directive of dispensing new naira notes to customers.

Atiku Mohammed, the CBN’s director of security services, who represented Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor, led a delegation to a day sensitization meeting with traders on the new redesigned naira notes to traders at the Alamis (Thursday) Market in Lafia.