The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has banned the acceptance of foreign currency cash deposits by commercial banks in order to stem illicit financial flows, the bank said late on Wednesday. Commercial banks had already started to either cap or ban such deposits last week due to the unavailability of
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