₦airaland Forum

Banks in the country have successfully linked 38 million accounts with the Bank Verification Numbers, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria.

As part of its financial inclusion drive, the CBN said it was targeting 100 million BVNs in the next five years.

According to the CBN, “In order to ease the constraint poor identification has on the availability of credit to prospective banking customers, the CBN will support an aggressive enrolment of prospective banking customers in the informal sector onto the BVN system.

“The current enrolment of 38 million unique banking customers will be expanded to 100 million over the next five years.


Source
http://samgist.com/38-million-accounts-with-the-bank-verification-numbers-in-nigeria/

How will it help our economy to grow

Ibramamahi:
How will it help our economy to grow

Donno oooo

this is to clamp down on yahoo boys but the real corrupt criminals do it and bvn overlooks their sins.