President Muhammadu Buhari has launched the first Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) internet-enabled branch in Lafia Nasarawa State.
Speaking about the building, CBN governor Godwin Emefiele said the new branch “is one of the nine new internet-enabled offices of CBN constructed to ensure the central bank has visible offices in Nigeria”.
He disclosed that the state-of-the-art smart building “is an internet-enabled building built to bring the central bank closer to the people to access CBN intervention facilities”.
He said the building “was anchored by the CBN’s Development Finance Department for easy and efficient delivery of the bank’s projects to the people”.
He also stated that work has been completed in similar “branches in Abakaliki, Ado-Ekiti, Birnin-Kebbi, Dutse, Gusau and Yenagoa, while those at Jalingo and Damaturu will be completed soon”.
Emefiele described the building as “the culmination of several years of hard work, using mainly local content and services as a way of enhancing the capabilities of our indigenous people without having to compromise quality, safety, health or environmental standards”.
Adding that the construction of the Lafia branch “is under the Federal Government’s statutory requirement for the presence of a Central Bank of Nigeria in every state of the federation, for currency and business transactions by government agencies and corporate entities in Nasarawa State”.
