The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on Thursday announced the extension of the deadline for the registration and linkage of the bank verification number, BVN, to accounts belonging to Nigerian banks’ customers living abroad.
CBN’s head, banking and payments department, Dipo Fatokun, said on Thursday that the deadline had been shifted from January 31, 2016 to June 30, 2016, while 30 new registration centres had been established in most major cities abroad to facilitate effective participation.
Mr. Fatokun explained that the extension became necessary to enable banks’ customers in the Diaspora complete the enrollment and link the BVN to their bank accounts.
He said the CBN had observed from a recent survey it conducted that the percentage of registration of Nigerian banks overseas was very low and needed to be increased to provide more outlets abroad.
He said this may be attributed to lack of accessibility to registration centres and availability of registration centres in some cities where Nigerian population was high.
He said this may be attributed to lack of accessibility to registration centres and availability of registration centres in some cities where Nigerian population was high.
To ensure that Nigerians took advantage of the deadline extension to register, Mr. Fatokun said fresh BVN registration centres have been opened in Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in the United States.
Other centres are located in London, Liecester and Manchester in the United Kingdom; Dubai in United Arab Emirate; Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa; Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia as well as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou in China.
The new registration centres were also opened in Toronto and Vancouver in Canada; Paris in France; Rome in Italy; Sao Paulo in Brazil; New Delhi in India; Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth in Australia; Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Kiev in Ukraine.
Mr. Fatokun said the CBN was still considering further deployment of more registration centres for other locations with high Nigerian population.
“Nigerian banks’ customers in the Diaspora are enjoined to seize the opportunity of the extension to register and link their BVN to their banks accounts,” he said.
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It's only Manchester that is new,others has bn there for months
DeleteFinally! Manchester is on the list. What were dey thinking before? Drive 4 hours to London because I wan do 1 yeye bvn?
ReplyDeleteWhat about people in Scotland n surrounding area?
Really, I went all the way from Glasgow to London to get mine done...
DeleteI don't even know what the bvn is doing for us in Naija sef, and u want to hassle those abroad to go and register. U better make d deadline 2017
ReplyDeleteLmao
DeleteHahahaha
DeleteGoodluck to all of them in abroad. As my Uncle's wife will call all those living outside the country abroadians.
ReplyDeleteAbroadians una weldone ooo
Lmao
Delete"In abroad"??? The day you will make a complete statement with proper grammar, I will go to church for thanksgiving.
DeleteWho's your employer sef?
in paris here . they were asking people to pay money . nigerian embassy . well i came to nigeria this last xmas and i did mine in nigeria . Bonjour stella . nwaowerri dey greet u oooooo.
ReplyDeleteYeye dey smell. This BVN ish is the most annoying step by CBN so far. Even the bankers are clueless with wat to use it for. They wld nw say write ur bvn on deposit slip! Excuse me!!! Clueless cbn gov and board members.
ReplyDeleteNow I am in the bank cuz of this same useless bvn. Why would u tell me to write my bvn on the account opening form and not update/link it to my new acct? So after days of trying to use d atm in vain, I get to the bank only for them to say I shld go and link my bvn. Ahan!!! Who does that? The one I wrote was it to keep space?
And to think the Yeye lady can't even answer ordinary good morning greeting is an indication that she is living a frustrated life.
I ve been standing for over an hour and the person is as clueless as the change agents.
End of rant!
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ReplyDeleteEnd time deadline
ReplyDeleteWhat's the benefit of this bvn to an average Nigerian mbok?
ReplyDeleteGreat news!
ReplyDeleteOK, good for them
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