How CBN’s cashless policy crashed Nigeria’s GDP in Q1
Nigeria’s N200 trillion economy was in dire straits due to banks’ temporarily shut-down to stranded Nigerians.
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Nigeria’s N200 trillion economy was in dire straits due to banks’ temporarily shut-down to stranded Nigerians.
Nigerians encountered challenges with the apex bank policy, with failed transactions, poor network and lack of cash dotting the country’s landscape between January and March.
A typical example of the monetary and the fiscal policies misalignment is the recent Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) cashless policy which was planned without consultations with the Ministry of Finance.
The CBN has failed to implement the referenced Supreme Court judgment which nullified the policy and declared it as an affront on the 1999 Constitution.
Nigeria’s cashless policy has since cause a lot of ‘discomfort’ despite the touted advantages by the apex bank.
Contrary to the views expressed by some financial experts that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)’s naira redesign policy will strengthen the currency, it has turned out to weaken it against the dollar.
With the current cash shortages amid an election, what is the fate of the election, given the history of vote-buying in previous elections?
The volume of e-payment transactions in the last 10 years show that Nigeria has made progress on the cashless policy.
Nigeria is moving toward a full-fledged cashless society with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s introduction of the cash swap policy.