{"id":53349,"date":"2021-10-25T16:20:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=53349"},"modified":"2021-10-25T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T15:23:44","slug":"buhari-launches-enaira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/buhari-launches-enaira\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Launches eNaira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday, launched the eNaira platform.<\/p>\n<p>The eNaira is a culmination of several years of research work by the Central Bank of Nigeria in advancing the boundaries of payments system in order to make financial transactions easier and seamless for every stratum of society.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was described by CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, as the first in Africa and one of the earliest around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Emefiele said, \u201cMr President, today you make history, yet again, with the launch of the eNaira \u2013 the first in Africa and one of the earliest around the world.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMr. President, as you make groundbreaking reforms, there has been continuing debate on the true value of the Naira.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than worry today on the direction of the exchange rate, let us take a step back and analyse how we got here in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Monday, launched the eNaira platform.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[551,9069,7485],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-53349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-business","category-news","tag-central-bank-of-nigeria","tag-e-naira","tag-major-general-muhammadu-buhari"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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