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SUBSCRIPTION FOR 9 BILLION SHARES OF GTCO AT N44.50 PER UNIT OPENS Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO) Plc has commenced a public offer to raise N400.5 billion to strengthen its operations, including its banking subsidiary, GTBank Nigeria Limited. This move follows a Central Bank of Nigeria...

CBN TO AUCTION N166bn T-BILLS The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will auction N166.1 billion in Treasury bills. The auction includes N27.11 billion for 91-day bills, N1.49 billion for 182-day bills, and N137.50 billion for 364-day bills. The CBN plans to issue N1.56 trillion in Treasury bills in...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) raised N284.26 billion from yield-hungry investors in its latest Nigerian Treasury Bills (NTBs) auction on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. According to the Debt Management Office (DMO), the auction attracted significant interest, with total subscriptions amounting to...

HERITAGE BANK: SHAREHOLDERS PUSH FOR MD, EDs’ PROBE Some minority shareholders of the failed Heritage Bank have called for an investigation into the management and directors of the bank following the revocation of its license by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The CBN stated that the...

CAPITALISATION: FIDELITY BANK OPENS N127BN PUBLIC OFFER Fidelity Bank has initiated a public offer and rights issue to raise N127.1 billion to comply with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s new capitalisation requirements. The bank aims to collect N97.5 billion from the public offer and N29.6...

NIGERIAN BANKS SUBMITTING RECAPITALISATION PLANS, CENTRAL BANK SAYS Nigerian banks have started submitting their plans to meet the new minimum capital requirements set by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to enhance the financial system and support economic growth. This comes after the CBN...

Yesterday, the Central Bank of Nigeria ordered the new implementation of a 0.5% levy on all electronic transactions as part of its effort to address the high rate of cybercrime in the financial system. The implementation follows the enactment of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.)...

CBN orders banks to deduct 0.5% cybersecurity levy from every transaction The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered all commercial banks to deduct 0.5% cybersecurity levy on all transactions. The levy is to be remitted into the account of the National cybersecurity Fund and all banks are mandated...

On Monday, 29th of January 2024, the President of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu reportedly demanded that some departments within the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria relocate from Abuja to Lagos to improve productivity and save costs. The Minister for...

Court fixes January 8, 2024 to deliver Godwin Emefiele judgment The date for Godwin Emefiele’s judgment has been fixed by the court. The court has settled on the 8th of January 2024 to deliver his judgment. A Federal Capital Territory High Court will deliver the judgment in the enforcement...

Latest information about the new naira Note About the New naira note The new naira notes are the redesigned naira notes in Nigeria. These newly redesigned notes consist of just 3 denominations out of 8 denominations. Only the higher denominations of the Nigerian currency which are the N200...

Old and New Naira notes to remain legal tender till further notice – supreme court In a recent development, the supreme court of Nigeria has ruled that both the old and new naira notes will remain legal tender until further notice is given. They gave the ruling today, the 29th of November...

Update: Court grants Godwin Emefiele bail once again The court has once again granted Godwin Emefiele bail. Godwin Emefiele is the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He began serving as the Governor of CBN on the 4th of June, 2014 until June 2023 when president Bola Tinubu...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has declared that the old N200, N500 and N1000 will continue to remain a legal tender for transactions and exchange in the country. Recall that at the end of October 2022, the Central Bank of Nigeria introduced the redesign of N200, N500 and N1000 notes and...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has unveiled its Consolidated Financial Statements spanning seven consecutive years. This disclosure marks a notable departure from the past, as the apex financial institution makes its financial records available for public scrutiny, a practice that had not...

After years of fixing FX prices, Nigeria's Central Bank floated the Naira in June. The loss of authority over the Naira was a critical step toward the elimination of Nigeria's numerous exchange rate windows. It was also a long-overdue step claimed as part of President Tinubu's key reforms...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) have agreed to build a Nigeria-Egypt FinTech Bridge. The signing event, which took place on July 17 - 18, 2023, at the Egypt International Exhibition Centre in Cairo, came after a series of engagements on payment methods...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to order the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to remove its direction to banks and other financial institutions requesting information from customers' social media accounts for identification. In...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has recently released a list of approved Bureau de Change (BDC) dealers, leaving the Nigerian financial space buzzing with curiosity. In this fresh list, the total number of approved BDC dealers has been significantly reduced to 2,991, leaving many wondering...

The Central Bank of Nigeria recently established a policy limiting contactless payments. The announcement came on Tuesday in two circulars signed by Musa Jimoh, Director of the CBN's Payments System Management Department. This policy is coming just after the CBN requested all banks to get the...