The Central Bank of Nigeria has dismissed allegation that some banks are experiencing distress.
The bank, which was reacting to reports suggesting that some banks are facing distress, said there no truth to the story at all.
The Director Corporate Communication, CBN, Alhaji Ibrahim Mu’azu, in a statement on Thursday, said, “The attention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been drawn to a fictitious online publication purporting that some deposit money banks in Nigeria are ‘experiencing stress.’
“The CBN wishes to state categorically that no Nigerian bank is ‘experiencing stress.’ The story as published is not only false and baseless but a figment of the writer’s imaginations.
“The CBN hereby assures the banking public that the Nigerian banking system is sound and all banks are in compliance with both the regulatory and prudential requirements.
“The Governor, on November 24, 2015, during the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) press briefing, also made it categorically clear that no Nigerian bank is in distress.
“The CBN, therefore, urges all bank customers and the general public to disregard the publication as it is false, mischievous and aimed at throwing the banking public into unnecessary panic.”
The CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday while addressing the press at the end of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting said the Central Bank had its own internal mechanism for determining the strategic health of all banks through its daily stress testing of the operations and activities of banks.
