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Africa-Press<\/a> – Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Former Senator, Ben Murray-Bruce has expressed dissatisfaction on the ban issued to Financial institutions against having any crypto or facilitating payments for crypto exchanges.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST had reported that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on Friday warned Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), Other Financial Institutions (OFIs), Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) and Local Financial Institutions against having transactions in crypto or facilitating payments for crypto exchanges.<\/p>\n

Reacting, the former Senator in a tweet via his Twitter account on Friday warned the Federal Government against making hasty decisions when it comes to policies regarding finance or the economy of the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a universal knowledge that decisions or policy regarding finance or economy should never be hasty.<\/p>\n

\u201cCBN should better not be in a hurry to make such hasty decisions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. Former Senator, Ben Murray-Bruce has expressed dissatisfaction on the ban issued to Financial institutions against having any crypto or facilitating payments for crypto exchanges. DAILY POST had reported that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on Friday warned Deposit Money Banks (DMBs), Other Financial Institutions (OFIs), Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) and Local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,2905,503,2904,254],"class_list":["post-36567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-ben-bruce","tag-cbn","tag-crypto","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nBen Bruce warns CBN against hasty decision on crypto - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Senator, Ben Murray-Bruce has expressed dissatisfaction on the ban issued to Financial institutions against havin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ben-bruce-warns-cbn-against-hasty-decision-on-crypto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ben Bruce warns CBN against hasty decision on crypto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Senator, Ben Murray-Bruce has expressed dissatisfaction on the ban issued to Financial institutions against havin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ben-bruce-warns-cbn-against-hasty-decision-on-crypto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-05T17:39:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/img-601d79d1305f7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ben-bruce-warns-cbn-against-hasty-decision-on-crypto#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ben-bruce-warns-cbn-against-hasty-decision-on-crypto\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ben Bruce warns CBN against hasty decision on crypto\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-05T17:39:23+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ben-bruce-warns-cbn-against-hasty-decision-on-crypto\"},\"wordCount\":143,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ben-bruce-warns-cbn-against-hasty-decision-on-crypto#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/02\/img-601d79d1305f7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Ben bruce\",\"CBN\",\"crypto\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ben-bruce-warns-cbn-against-hasty-decision-on-crypto#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ben-bruce-warns-cbn-against-hasty-decision-on-crypto\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/ben-bruce-warns-cbn-against-hasty-decision-on-crypto\",\"name\":\"Ben Bruce warns CBN against hasty decision on crypto - 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