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The E-Sylum: Volume 25, Number 48, November 27, 2022, Article 27

NIGERIANS UNIMPRESSED WITH NEW BANKNOTES

There's a kerfuffle in Nigeria over newly introduced banknotes. -Editor

Nigeria old and new banknote Nigerians have criticized the redesigning of the country's local currency proposed by its central bank to rein in counterfeiting and hoarding of large sums outside the banking system.

President Muhammadu Buhari unveiled the redesigned 200-, 500-, and 1,000-naira notes on Wednesday, saying the new Naira banknotes have been fortified with security features that make them difficult to counterfeit.

The new notes look very similar to those currently in circulation. The design of the highest-value 1,000-naira note, which includes the national coat-of-arms and the headquarters of the Central Bank of Nigeria, is largely unchanged. The only significant difference is the color it's gone from a largely brown underprint to blue.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says that the redesigned notes will replace notes currently in circulation by Jan. 2023.

But many locals are not impressed, describing the supposedly redesigned banknotes as a mere color revamp, given their similarities to the old notes.

Snapchat filter, waste of time and resources, so a whole CBN cannot employ experts to redesign the naira notes. This is a revamp not a redesign, one Nigerian tweeted.

The value of the Nigerian naira has been in a decline in recent years, falling to a record low on the black market where it traded at nearly 800 to the US dollar as of Friday.

Old naira notes will be completely phased away by the end of January next year, the CBN says, as locals scramble to deposit their old notes at commercial banks.

To read the complete article, see:
˜It changes nothing.' Nigerians unimpressed with redesigned banknotes (https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/25/business/nigeria-launches-new-banknotes-lgs-intl)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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