AbdulRazaq therefore advised residents of the state, especially traders, to collect and spend the old and new Naira notes as both are still legal tenders in the country.
Browsing: Old notes
This is contained in a press release signed later Monday by the CBN Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Isa AbdulMumin.
Shortly after information filtered in that the CBN has directed the acceptance of the notes, it disowned the information.
The directive came on a day more protests attended the new cashless policy.
The Director, Corporate Communications Department at the CBN, Osita Nwanisobi, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday.