{"id":69969,"date":"2023-03-11T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=69969"},"modified":"2023-03-11T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:03:15","slug":"old-naira-notes-still-legal-tender-bayelsa-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/old-naira-notes-still-legal-tender-bayelsa-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Naira Notes Still Legal Tender &#8212;Bayelsa Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bayelsa State government has said it understands the pains of residents of the state following the implementation of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) naira redesign policy and the Supreme Court ruling on the old N200, N500 and N1000 currency notes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54646 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CBN-PIX-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"CBN\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CBN-PIX-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CBN-PIX-110x68.jpg 110w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CBN-PIX-420x260.jpg 420w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CBN-PIX-693x430.jpg 693w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CBN-PIX.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>To this end the State Government through the Commissioner of Information, Orientation and Strategy, Hon. Ayibaina Duba has urged residents to be calm and not engage in acts that could jeopardize the peace of the state.<\/p>\n<p>A statement released by the Commissioner with respect to the naira redesign policy and the Supreme Court Verdict reads in parts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bayelsa State government notes that on March 3, the Supreme Court ruled that the old notes, which had been phased out by the CBN, remain legal tender till December 31 this year.<\/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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69970 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230311-WA0040.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230311-WA0040.jpg 160w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230311-WA0040-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230311-WA0040-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG-20230311-WA0040-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>&#8220;While the state government is not against the naira redesign policy of the CBN or the federal government, it is however not comfortable with the method of its implementation that has resulted in further hardship on people of the state and, indeed, the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government, therefore, urges business operators in the state, particularly banks, traders and keke (tricycle) operators to take into consideration the Supreme Court ruling in order to reduce the pains of people of the state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also added that: &#8220;The government also calls on the CBN to take immediate steps to ease the burden of doing business in the state by making implementation of the policy less cumbersome.&#8221;<\/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>Bayelsa State government has said it understands the pains of residents of the state following the implementation of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) naira redesign policy and the Supreme Court ruling on the old N200, N500 and N1000 currency notes.<!-- 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":69288,"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":[17,624],"tags":[155,36],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-69969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-politics","tag-bayelsa-state","tag-cbn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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