Naira Scarcity Leads Event Planners to Print Vouchers For Spraying at Parties, Pictures Look Like Naira Notes

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 Nigerians have always been ingenious at devising ways of beating the system. Following the biting scarcity of cash and the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) stance on the illegality of spraying naira at parties, event planners in Lagos have found a new way of beating CBN’s directive against the abuse of the naira notes. Read more: Nigerians have always been ingenious at devising ways of beating the system. Following the biting scarcity of cash and the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) stance on the illegality of spraying naira at parties, event planners in Lagos have found a new way of beating CBN’s directive against the abuse of the naira notes. Read more: https://universalworldbestking.blogspot.com/?m=1


A Lagos-based event management outfit, 247SL, began an innovative method of staying within the norms and obeying CBN directives at the same time. Vouchers available in N200, N500 and N1000 notes The event management company printed the naira look-alike vouchers for partygoers to circumvent CBN’s directives. Read more: https://universalworldbestking.blogspot.com/2023/02/cbn-orders-banks-to-collect-old-n500.html




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