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Kaduna, Kogi, Zamfara Govts Sues FG Over New Naira Notes

The Federal Government has been sued by the governments of Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara States, over the implementation of the naira redesign policy.
The governments expressed worry that the policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria has had a negative impact on residents of their states.
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While the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, is the sole respondent in the suit, the three Attorneys-General and Commissioners of Justice of the three states are the plaintiffs.
The three northern states in a motion ex-parte filed on their behalf by their lawyer, AbdulHakeem Mustapha, SAN, are urging the court to grant them an interim injunction stopping the FG either by itself or acting through the CBN, the commercial banks, or its agents from carrying out its plan of terminating the February 10 timeframe within which the now older versions of the 200, 500 and 1000 denominations of the naira would cease to be legal tender.
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