CBN raises rate to 17.5 %, insists on January 31 deadline for old Naira notes
Written by City Radio on January 24, 2023
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised the Monetary Policy Rate to 17.5 percent in its efforts to tame inflation.
The Governor of CBN, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this, this afternoon, at the end of the first 2023 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting in Abuja.
He said that although the effects of past policy decision were being felt in the reduction of the rate of inflation, the result was not yet good enough to hold or reduce the MPR.
He also reiterated that there would be no extension of the January 31 deadline for the Naira redesign policy.
According to him, all those who had the old notes had enough time to take them to the bank or swap them for the new ones within the time frame.
Mr. Emefiele also dismissed claims that CBN was holding N89 trillion Stamp Duty fund.
He explained that only N370. 386 billion had been collected through Deposit Money Banks since the policy became effective in 2016.
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