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CBN receives eight million applications, disburses N400bn as Covid-19 loan

Ebuka Daniel

The Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed that it has received over eight million applications from Nigerians for its COVID-19 Targeted Credit Facility to help households and businesses.

CBN’s Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr Osita Nwanisiobi, disclosed this while fielding questions from journalists in Enugu during a one-day interactive enlightenment session with organised labour and civil society groups on the five-year policy thrust of the CBN.

Nwanisiobi, who said that CBN would not rest on its oars as the TCF had helped Nigerians exit recession and post the current Gross Domestic Product growth rate of 5.01 per cent.

He added that over 600,000 applicants had benefited from the various COVID-19-induced interventions so far.

Nwanisiobi faulted claims that residents of Enugu State didn’t receive the CBN credit facilities.

He said, “That would not be true. If you tell me that there are people who still need COVID-19 facility and who have not received it; honestly, I will agree with you.”

He said, “We started with about N50bn. We moved to N100bn, to N300bn; today; we are talking about N400bn. Now, the number of applications that we have is over eight million applications and we have done over 600,000.

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