Nigeria’s central bank to launch own digital currency by end of 2021
Only four months after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) placed a ban on cryptocurrency trading in Nigeria, in what it said was in the best interests of Nigerians, the apex bank appears to have made a volte-face, with revelation that it plans to launch the digital currency in 2021. ...
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