Despite being criticied by the public, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has confirmed plans to produce and distribute the N5,000 note in 2014. Tunde Lemo, the Deputy Governor of CBN, disclosed this while speaking to journalists at the NIBSS 20th anniversary conference held in Lagos.
He said in one to two months from now, the N5,000 notes will be in circulation! "We only stopped the project due to the low level of understanding of its benefits among Nigerians, but we now plan to educate the
people about the importance of the notes to our economy before we eventually launch it", Tunde Lemo explained.
He further added that Nigerians would soon see the notes in circulation and start to enjoy its benefits. Some financial experts on November 27, 2013, Wednesday, commended the CBN on its plan to change naira notes from polymer to paper notes in second quarter of 2014. They said in Lagos that the plan was a good decision, but long over-due.
Mr. Muda Yusuf, the Director-General of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), said
that the decision was well intended. He said that it was an error on the part of CBN to have produced polymer notes. Yusuf urged the CBN to be cost conscious in the production of naira notes, saying the polymer notes lacked quality as they faded easily. Read more
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