 Good evening. This is the news now. The Central Bank of Nigeria, the CBN, has announced a 10-day extension of the deadline for the use of old Naira notes across Nigeria. The CBN governor, Godwin Emmefeli, announced the extension on Sunday in Daorak at Sina State. The Apex Bank had earlier fixed January 31st's deadline for the old 200, 500 and 1,000 Naira notes to cease being used as legal tender. Speaking with newsmen after a meeting with the president, Emmefeli said Buhari approved the extension of the deadline to Feb. 10. We deployed 30,000 super-agents nationwide to assist in our cash swap initiative in the hinterlands, rural areas and regions underserved by banks in the country to ensure that the weak and vulnerable ones amongst us can swap or exchange their old notes. D, we deployed all our staff, particularly those of the great assistant director, deputy directors and directors in Abuja to proceed to all CBN branches nationwide to join the mass mobilization campaign and monitor the program working with the deposit money banks, agents and branch controllers across the 36 states of the federation. This is meant to ensure compliance with all our guidelines already issued for smooth implementation of the program. Although we have received some reports of breaches by some bank branches, we have agreed with the executive chairmen of the EFCC and ICPC to assist us by sending their staff to all CBN and bank branches nationwide to join in monitoring the implementation of these guidelines. The aim is to ensure compliance with the laid-down guidelines. E, we are happy that so far the access has achieved a success of over 75% of the 2.7 trillion Naira, hailed outside the banking system. Nigerians in rural areas, our villages, the aged and the vulnerable have had the opportunity to swap their old notes, leveraging the Agent Naira swap initiative, as well as the CBN senior staff nationwide sensitization exercise. F, aside from those who are in illicit and studying Naira in their homes for speculative purpose, we do aim to give all Nigerians that have Naira legitimately end and trapped the opportunity to deposit their legitimately trapped money at the CBN for exchange. Based on the foregoing, we have today sought and obtained, Mr. President's approval for the following one, a 10-day extension of the deadline from January 31, 2023 to February 10, 2023 to allow for collection of more old notes, legitimately hailed by Nigerians and achieve more success in cash swap in our rural areas, in our villages and communities, after which all old notes outside the CBN loses the legal tender status.