{"id":1269199,"date":"2022-12-23T00:48:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/nigeria-raises-cash-withdrawal-limits-after-outcry\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T00:48:20","slug":"nigeria-raises-cash-withdrawal-limits-after-outcry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/nigeria-raises-cash-withdrawal-limits-after-outcry\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Raises Cash Withdrawal Limits After Outcry |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s central bank has significantly increased limits it had imposed on cash withdrawals following a public outcry.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month it said customers would only be able to take out the equivalent of $220 (\u00a3183) per week. The withdrawal limit has now been increased to more than $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Cash plays a vital role in Nigeria as most people do not have a bank account. Last week redesigned banknotes were introduced and will replace all those currently in circulation.<\/p>\n<p>The move is aimed at trying to curb inflation and corruption &#8211; including vote buying ahead of February&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: BBC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\"><\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s central bank has significantly increased limits it had imposed on cash withdrawals following a public outcry. Earlier this month it said customers would only be able to take out the equivalent of $220 (\u00a3183) per week. The withdrawal limit has now been increased to more than $1,000. Cash plays a vital role in Nigeria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1077035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}