{"id":8141,"date":"2021-06-12T01:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/the-cbn-says-nigeria-will-have-a-digital-currency-before-end-of-year\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T01:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T01:54:05","slug":"the-cbn-says-nigeria-will-have-a-digital-currency-before-end-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/the-cbn-says-nigeria-will-have-a-digital-currency-before-end-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The CBN Says Nigeria Will Have a Digital Currency Before End of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigeria is likely to have its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) by the end of the year, an official with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said. In his remarks following the bankers\u2019 committee meeting, Rakiya Mohammed, who is the director of information technology at CBN, also revealed that this \u201cdigital currency would be accessible to all Nigerians.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stakeholder Involvement<\/h2>\n

However, according to a report<\/a> which quotes the IT director, the CBN\u2019s digital currency will be unlike privately issued cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, which a Nigerian senator has previously blamed for making the naira currency \u201calmost useless.\u201d Emphasizing the importance of this digital currency initiative, Mohammed said:<\/p>\n

We have spent over two years studying this concept of the central bank digital currency and we have identified the risks. And it is one of the reasons why I said we are setting up a central governance structure that would involve all industry stakeholders to access all the risks as we continue on this journey.<\/p>\n

The director adds that \u201cvery soon\u201d the CBN will be making an announcement on the date for the CBDC launch.<\/p>\n

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The CBN\u2019s Digital Currency Drive<\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, with these latest comments, Mohammed becomes the second CBN official to suggest that a digital currency roll-out is in the works. In May 2021, CBN governor Godwin Emefiele said<\/a> digital currency would \u201ccome to life even in Nigeria.\u201d<\/p>\n

Incidentally, both Mohammed and Emefiele\u2019s digital currency comments have come a few months after the CBN ordered<\/a> banks to stop extending their services to cryptocurrency entities. Nigerian officials blamed cryptocurrency exchanges and start-ups for fueling foreign currency shortages and for causing the naira\u2019s depreciation on the black market.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, with only six months left before the year ends, it remains to be seen if the digital currency promises are going to come to fruition.<\/p>\n

What do you think of this latest digital currency comment by a CBN official? You can share your views in the comments section below. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Nigeria is likely to have its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) by the end of the year, an official with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said. In his remarks following the bankers\u2019 committee meeting, Rakiya Mohammed, who is the director of information technology at CBN, also revealed that this \u201cdigital currency would…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain-news","category-coin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyucoin.com\/crypto-labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}