CBN Takes Financial Literacy Campaign to Ibadan

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday took its on-going nationwide sensitisation campaign on consumer protection, bank verification number (BVN) and other developments in the banking system to Ibadan.

Hundreds of bank customers were tutored by officials of the central bank on the CBN’s roles on development finance, consumers protection, BVN, cashless policy, wonder banks, among others.

Officials of the CBN stormed three major markets in Ibadan: Bodija International market, Agbeni and Gbagi markets, where market men and women were sensitised on the central bank’s programmes at growing the economy. It also involved road shows in strategic locations in the city, in its efforts to develop safe, reliable and efficient financial institution.

The CBN fair had the theme: “Promoting Financial stability and economic development.”

The talk show at the event had the Deputy Director in Charge of Consumer Protection, Mrs. Khadijah Kasim, and some top management staff of CBN in attendance. Kasim urged Nigerians to get their BVN before the deadline elapses.

“We have amongst us, people from Development Finance Department, who talked about how micro, small and medium enterprises are going to access credit and how they need to go about it. We are here with people from Shared Services and they talked about cashless policy. We are also here with Currency Operation Department, who lectured participants on how to handle the naira notes and different features that we need to identify on our currency notes that will make us differentiate a genuine currency note from a counterfeit note.