 The CBN on October 26th, 2022 had announced its plans to redesign the three banknotes. President Muhammad Abu Hari subsequently unveiled the redesigned 200 Naira, 500 Naira and 1000 Naira notes on November 23rd, 2022, while the Apex Bank fixed January 31st deadline for the validity of the old notes. From that time till now, citizens have been encouraged to submit their old Naira notes at banks nationwide. With the deadline fast approaching, one might argue that the old Naira notes are still very much in circulation as seen in some of the stories we've heard, such as the case of the Kaduna Beggars who refused an old 1000 Naira notes offered to them, and the family in Nigeria who rejected the old Naira notes offered at a bright price. Today we're discussing the old Naira notes versus the new Naira notes. Please let's hear what you have to say. Remember, you can join the conversation, send us an SMS or WhatsApp to 08-180-384-663. You can also tweet to us at WeShowAfricaOne with the hashtag WeShow. Okay, so today we're talking about the new Naira notes versus the old Naira notes. And I mean, listening to what Alera said, what's in the news about, you know, people saying, okay, they've taken their money to the bank, the bank has rejected it, and like I also read as well, people in the river areas, the uplands, you know, and as much as I understand that there's that policy that says a country's currency should be renewed within five to eight years, and if we're going by that, you know, the Naira is actually long overdue for design. Yes, it's been, I mean, the 1000 Naira notes has been there for, what, I think about 17 years now. So I mean, yes, we are overdue for, you know, or like Angie rightly said, there are so many things, what's the rush? You know, you only made this announcement, what's November? And then this is January. What's the rush? Is there something else we should know? Is there? And even the way, with the way, okay, so since the news came out, regardless of the announcement came out, were you saying Ghana must go over what's in money? So first of all, when I heard the news, I was like, why? Why now? Because I mean, election is coming next year. That was election is in February. Why are we making that decision now? However, those Ghana must go of what's in money. We have they been, I support it 100%. Of course. Because I mean, based on what we're saying, it's definitely going to control so many things. However, right, Nigeria? Once again. Once again. Right, Nigeria, once again. And you want to share your thoughts on this? Well, like you rightly said, the NERA notes, especially the 200, 500 and 1000 NERA, I mean, the change of those notes is actually very long overdue. 1000 NERA has been in circulation for what, 17 years. 500 has been in circulation for 21 years. And then 200 has been in circulation for 22 years. So they should have changed it like two or three times. But I mean, the question, the original question is the change, the redesigning of this currency, is it actually going to cover what it is supposed to cover? Because truth is, I understand why we are redesigning. Apart from the policies in place that we should redesign between, I mean, within five to eight years, apart from that, I understand the other reasons for security measures. For instance, they needed to cover the kidnapping. For instance, they needed to cover counter because that's one of the major reasons why countries actually change their currency because they need to cover counterfeits ahead. But true and true, is this really the solution? Yeah, I think that's the original question. Is this really the solution? So for me, I'm wondering how it's going to control or aid inflation, like manage inflation? How? Okay, so, all right, let me let you finish. No, no, I'm just wondering. So I don't know if anybody can help me here. How is going to manage it? How is redesigning of NERA going to manage the pressure of inflation if it's done right? Because right now, there's not a lot of money in circulation, right? So a lot of people have heard that, like you said, you've been seeing Ganamos because of rotting money. So people have kept money in their houses. So now they are saying take this money back to the bank. Of course, before you can get word of note of the new currency, it's going to take a while. So that's going to now help to boost the economy again, up until they start to still again. Because as the original reason for everyone to be designing to manage the yeah, to be able to, you know, improve the economy. Alara is not convinced. She's not convinced. What's up? Angel, what are you talking about? Let's see. Like I said earlier, I don't think it's a bad idea for the different reasons both the government and the people have given, whether it's to corruption, kidnapping, inflation, whatever it is, is actually they're all right. But then again, the question is, is this the right time? Is it a good decision for right now? What is the real, real purpose for this? Because there's the surface. There's the surface. There's the one that they want us to think is the reason behind it. But there are other reasons. So what are all these other reasons? And where the people considered properly, when this decision was being made? Because it needed a time for people to actually, like you said, and I'm not even talking about the really rich people because they're the ones who have all the currencies that, you know, rotting. That's because they've hooded this currency for whatever reason they have for. But the thing is it goes back to the market women. It goes back to the fact that we know that we are in a place where we're very cash conscious. We're cash oriented. You meet somebody on the way, whether you want to say hello to a policeman or you want to say well done for work, you have to, you know, it's cash. I'm not going to stay there and start doing a transfer. You know, you go to the market or you want to buy water while in traffic. I'm not going to do a transfer. I'm going to use cash. So I have literally, I've seen the 1,000 Naira notes and I've seen, I just saw the 500. I literally had to take it from my sister's wallet because she's a banker. So I just took it. I said, I've never seen this note. Let me take one. But I haven't seen the 200. I haven't cited it. And it doesn't look so different from the old. I haven't even seen it. And this is the issue. How do people spend what they can see? What they can even have. It's going to be hard for the government to rush everybody into a non-currency situation and policy. Why? Because it's going to take a lot of, you know, awareness for this. And the sensitization has to start from the rural areas because that's where they hold the cash. You and I can quickly say, okay, do you know, I just take like the 100,000 or 1,000,000 I have in my house, I take it to the bank and that's it. And then I use my card. But these guys have a schedule because they want to make money. They have a schedule. Maybe they go to bank on Thursday. So they gather all their money from Monday to Thursday. Then maybe they put it together and one person goes to do the paying and everything. They have a system that works for them. So this is totally going to put everything in disarray and in jeopardy. And a lot of businesses are going to have issues because now a lot of businesses have to start trying to, you know, get POS machines. Then if you are using the POS merchants on the road, they are charging. So, you know, there's going to be a lot of ripple effect to this. And especially when you're getting on the bus, are you going to, are the buses going to be electronic? Are they going to have a cash machine on the bus? Like, how quickly are we going to be able to catch up? Okay, so this is also looking at it from the point of circulation. I mean, when I talked about how the Kaduna beggars have even refused to collect the new naranjots, they are not accepting it. Even in Lagos, there are some people that you would take the money on there. I wanted to buy for the other day and then it was a new note I had. I didn't want to take it. And it was like, ah, no, no, no, no, no, I won't collect it. But this is what they said we should start spending like that. And he doesn't know which one is fake and which one is original. So that brings us to the point of quality. So now let's talk about the quality. Have you seen it? So, the other day, I was with my friend, right? And then a group of friends, and then one of them brought her to the 1000 and she was saying, she know, I went somewhere yesterday and then the person used tissue and he was bringing out blue and I'm like, it's not possible. I was like, okay, please go and bring tissue. And that was how she brought her blue. So that means that that money is going, it's not going to, you know how? It wouldn't last. You forget money. In your pocket like that. In white, in white pants. Or you're sweating or what's that? We know that that NERA, we used to sell tape NERA back in the day. This one would just fade off. But in their defense, the deputy, the what's it called, director of currency operations of CBN. In his defense, he said they didn't care so much about aesthetics. Because I mean, bro, in his defense, he was like, they were trying to, I don't know, he was saying they were trying to, you know, provide a, for rather a solution to a current problem. So they didn't have so much time to think about what design should come in or what design should not come in. So in their defense, that's ink. The new ink is a secure, is a form of security. Exactly. Well, that's, that's what I'm saying. See, they're taking us for granted. So I have the comments here. So the announcement was done in November of 2020. So as of September of 2022, the available data that CBN indicated was 2.7 trillion, right? That was out. And then 3.23 trillion was in sec, currency is in circulation. So that difference, how do, how do they balance it? So what's the rest of the one point, something billionaire? That's why they are asking people to bring their money back to the bank. Because they realized that 85% of the notes was not even, it was not even in the bank. It was outside, people hoarding money. It's like digging floors and putting inside. Exactly. I literally saw a video online of a candidate, of a current candidate. And this was when the announcement was still being made. You know, the announcement was still being circulated. And during the campaign, they were distributing the, and I'm like, this money that we haven't seen is already in in someone else's hands. And that's the, that's the problem. Because the money doesn't, the money is for the banks, but it never gets there. And it never gets to the people. It never gets to the end users. And there's just this 20% or 10% of people who control the cash, the actual cash. And so it's, it's, it's, I'm sure a lot of people ordered this cash straight to their house from the, from the banks. Hence the reason why the banks have no cash to give to the people. So they are basically giving the cash to the prominence and the elites. Okay. So I mean, there's a picture that went viral at some point of the damaged, of the damaged currents. Yeah, I saw that. I saw one. Remember when I saw that video, I thought it was like, you know, right after COVID, that they were finding warehouses with different palates. And that's what I thought. Only for different, in rural areas, they went to a warehouse and they stopped. That amount was go of rots in money. Not one, not two, not three, not four. Yeah. So that's, that's, that's actually the new one. So you can see the damage that has been done. Just imagine. So just look at that. This is because of mass production. Of the rush. Yeah. Of the rush. So now Damia, I think you're speaking in this like the color. How much, how much was used? What did she say? You're speaking Ahmed Maher's defense. Well, I'm just speaking based off of what he said. Because according to him, they had no time or they had just limited time. So actually, so I would be just because, just like when you are doing production, when you are rushing, there's going to be a lot of damages. There's one that is not good. I think that's what's happening to the quality. So are we saying that outside? Where is the mecha checker? Like for me, like where is the QA? Where is the QA? This is something that is, is international. Like this money is going to leave Nigeria to a few other countries for, you know, Korea's legal tender. So that's your first identity. How do you explain that mistake? Questions, questions, questions. Yeah, I understand. For me, if I say, I don't want to say my prayer. I want to plead with everybody. I think it's time for you guys to stop taking endurance for granted. Because we ask questions and nobody answers. And then they just feel like, because on a regular basis, like if I were looking at, let's say when it comes to your nine to five, but if you have a business and you have to produce something that people would use, even if you feel like these people are not, you know, but it is your work. If you give your work some type of, if you respect your work, you ensure that whatever it is that you're putting out comes out. Do you even respect the country you serve to produce a currency that does not even represent the country where you want it to be represented? Okay, we'll take a short break. See you shortly. If you just tuned in into our Ladies Night Out and we are discussing the topic, old narrow notes versus new narrow notes, please let's hear what you have to say. Remember, you can join the conversation, send us an SMS or WhatsApp to 08-1-803-84663 or tweet to us at Way Show Africa One with the hashtag Way Show. Our phone line is now open. Please call us on 070-250-077-49. We'd love to hear what do you think about the redesigning of the narrow notes? And also, do you think this deadline says, as January 31st, is visible? I can't wait to hear from you. So yeah, we're seeing, the UK also said they are redesigning their notes as well, right? But then they've given a deadline up until 2024? That's a lot better because you know, they're trying to like put the face of King Charles deferred. So they are trying to redesign the currencies and that's fair to extend it up until 2024. That way, there's a long time to be in circulation because our own currency right now, if you go to the ATM, I don't think it's particular, not all ATMs are particularly dispensing the new notes. Oh no, I've been a victim actually. Oh, you see? I did a deposit into the bank and then I went to the ATM thinking I was going to get, I got back my money. Do you get something? So I think I did, I did 20,000, I got only 9,000 new notes and then the rest were old notes. So I had to also spend it, so it's like recycling. You don't have to run back to the bank. So does it mean that, does it mean that some banks are actually trying to dispose of, like is it, I did not supposed to take that, the old notes back to the ATM? Okay, so we have, we have a caller, someone on the line, Benga. Hello. Benga, are you there? So we have Benga from Lagos. Hello, Benga. Can you hear me? Okay. Okay. I think, I think. All right, so anyway, we spoke about the bright price that was paid. Oh, okay. Hello, Benga, good evening. Can you hear me? Yes, yes, we can hear you now. Okay, like what I'm saying is if you people are taking notes for granted as a country, what they are planning over time is going to launch this country into a crisis, you want to change currency just a few months before elections and you're making everybody to hurry. That's, like she was saying, I don't know your name, sorry. That's a big guy, that's a deeper reason why these guys are playing these games. It's just for politics. Nothing, it's not about kidnapping. It's not about the welfare of the people. It's not about inflation. It's not about politics. And if it's something like this, like you're saying, the people that are getting these new notes at the rich guys, if I'm a rich guy, I don't need to go to the bank to get the new notes. The bank managers bring them to me. So the poor people can't even get access to this money. Truly, I'm tired of politics, like what you call democracy in Nigeria. I'm tired. These people are making us look like fools. They ain't pay out. We feel you. Yeah. Nga, I hope you have your PVC. Yeah. Great. Thank you. I hope you're going to go out there and make it good decision. Bless you for that. All right, thank you very much, Nga, for calling and giving your contribution. Thank you so much, Nga. Imagine someone who has bulk of money, say $500 million. Now, I even hear that the AFCC. So if you go and then you deposit that into your money. That's the smartest way to cut it. They now come back to trade. Yes. Either way, I just feel like either way, the time is too short. It's too short. Even though necessary, but the time is just too short. And you know, two months, there's a lot of, like I said, Nigeria is a cash economy. The cash related. Getting considered the conditions around it. Whether it's just about the elections. That's why I said the priorities were not set, considering everyone. Because if what. Sorry, sorry, we have another caller on the line. Hello, good evening. Hello, good evening. Good evening. Pastor Ladik for good evening, sir. Yeah, this is Pastor Ladik. Okay, go ahead, sir. I'm coming from Oreliko. Thank you, sir. Now, you see, my take is this one. This will design naira notes. Okay, so Pastor Ladik, thank you very much. But then we're still saying, do you think this deadline is actually feasible? Is it? So realistically, we would expect that they would extend it again. Like he said, when I remember NIM, when the announcement was made just years ago, even up till last year, people were still trying to register for NIM. Even up till now. So I believe that they would have to extend this if they really want to curb corruption. And AFCCO, they'll be having fun right now because as they're using their binoculars to be checking to make sure that who is depositing above 50 million. Let us know who you are. A lot of people are also scared because even, you know, legit businessmen would still be looked as fraudulent people if they go and deposit that much money. So it's a lot of, I don't know how to place it, but this country, we have so many. I think we've gone beyond the part of our praying that God help us. Okay, we have another caller on the line, Steven. Steven. Thank you for calling. Hello. Hello, Steven. We can hear you. Go ahead. Yeah. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Yeah. This is my personal opinion that this changing of the note my number is 200, 500, 1,000. And then the time, three months, we are after terribly extension for one week. Mom, that will be okay. Let me tell you, Nigeria, Nigeria, if you give us two years now, the Naira will see the outside. If we are asking for one week, that will be good enough. Let's make this election to be production free. Please. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, thank you so much, Steven. So, Mr. Steven says, even if we are, so now this comes back to, this now comes back to discipline. So are we saying that we are that in disciplined in Nigeria? That even if we are giving five years, people will still not go to the bank to deposit this money. So that's what we're saying. I don't agree completely because it is money. It is money. You will not, it's not paper, it's money. And if you remember, the only, I'm going back to NIM because I know that it was until the telcos had to make a compulsory that you have to, you have to link your NIM with your phone number. That was when most people started ensuring that, oh, their lines were bad. Some things had to happen to have to force people to go and do it. So yes, the time is short. However, if it's not extended, people would, the banks will be flooded. How many million people do we have in the country? How many banks do we have? How many bank workers do we have that would attend to this number of people that will actually walk up in the back and say, I have my ganamos of money or have my bag of money to deposit? The time is short. Yes. I believe that the time will be extended. However, Nigerians, it's money. You can't let your money go to waste because it means like, after the deadline and they really stand on that, your money is going to be like paper. In fact, it's not going to be money again. Nothing is going to happen to the cash that is not taken to the bank. If you're not rich, I'm sorry, this is Nigeria. If you're not rich, it's just going to go. You don't want to lose all your money. You just don't want to. So that's why now the communication is going around to ensure that the people in the rural area, who are the people that a lot of, you know, we are most concerned about, because they are the ones that they've gone to the bank and the banks were rejecting this currency, the old currency. So they are the ones I'm really feeling for, because they are the ones that you have to go and buy biscuits, Maggie oil, they are the ones that markets, you eat every day and they are the ones taking the money. So they are the ones that should be considered. So if possible, maybe the bank should send accounts managers to go to a specific market or a specific, you know, area and say, okay, guys, they are depositing your money with. It's easier for them. They should also make it easy for customers or for the Nigerians to be able to go deposit their money. They should make it easy so that we can deposit our money. Can I add that? Churches have also added, actually, don't break your offering. So I don't know if they're saying that with the CBN deadline of January 31st, that please, congregants should not, after a stipulated time, congregants should please not deposit. So maybe their baskets would be transparent so that you can see the judgment, because I don't understand how if you're counting it, maybe if you're counting in the back room, you would know who gave what. Because I think some people would do that. I'm sorry I have digressive, but would you feel guilty if they've closed, if they've stopped collecting the old note that you got to choose? I'll go with the old note. You guys use the old note as offering. I think it's to just introduce my point, because I was actually going to say it's worth it. Sorry, sorry, please hold that. We have another call online. Hello, good evening. Hello, good evening. Hello, good evening. Good evening. Good evening. So go ahead, we can hear you. Hello, good evening. We can hear you, go ahead. Okay, I think we lost that, yeah, I think we lost that call. Okay, you were going to say something. So I was just saying that, you know, with the churches also giving a deadline, we're going to have issues because, you know, on Sunday, and you know, I like to ask this. But it's true, you didn't answer my question. If you will be, if it will be meant yet, definitely. It's for adventure. You know, the bank have stopped collecting old notes, and I have old notes, and I use the old notes to put offering. Is that bad? You know in your heart that that is bad, because the church cannot take it to the bank. Honestly. Okay, don't forget our full lines and all, where you can call us on 070-250-077-49. And please don't forget to turn down the volume of your TV sets or whatever device it is that you may be watching us from while you're calling. Thank you. Dami. Yes, I was going to say, you know, it is one thing for Nigerians to be disciplined enough to, you know, take their money to the bank. It is another thing for the bank to actually provide, and apart from accepting it now, to provide the actual new notes. Because I'm taking my old notes to the bank, but then I go to the ATM, and then I'm still withdrawing the old notes. I don't understand how is, how then is the new notes supposed to be in circulation? So if the banks have made sure that the new notes are actually in circulation from, you know, ATMs, I mean, people that run POS businesses, for instance, they cash they get, they get it from the bank. So if we go to the POS and they still have old notes, well, they will still give us old notes. Do you get? So, I mean, we first need the banks to make sure that there is enough new notes in the ATMs. So that way, at the end of the day, you see that the old notes will keep going gradually. Because it does, I don't think that it makes any sense to just, you know, create a deadline. It should be a flow. Do you understand? Where a deadline, then you are not making it easy for the deadline to even be met. So it's like, we are stuck, but there's nothing you can do. It's, I mean. Because the money that works, so for instance, now, if I pay for something with my card, that's different. But if I go to the market and I'm buying something, market or something, they go, they still go and deposit that money. So if there's like a cycle, I have old notes. I spend it. The person that takes it to the bank gets the new, do you get what I mean? It's slow. Yeah, the process will be easier. It's going to slow. But when we keep getting old notes, so it's like, we're going round and round and round. And, I mean. Okay, so I'm going to ask, do you think this will be political more? Like, what about Kola said that, like, she was right. But he feels that there's more to this. It's not just about the defeating counterfeit notes or creating a cashless policy. So like, it's been speculated. Do you think that this is actually... So maybe they're trying to control the flow of money or the... I mean, for me, I don't agree completely because the truth is, we would not know that this should have been made behind closed doors. But when we look at, for instance, now we see England, they're changing their currency. Ghana is also doing the same thing. They're speculating that you have to spend in gold now. So other countries are basically going down that direction. And if you also notice, there's inflation around the world. So there's too many speculation that we can't even place our fingers to say, okay, this is the particular thing because we would only just keep speculating. You just be assuming, oh, is it this? Could it be this? And then at the end of the day, we're having propagandas and conspiracies around those latrine things. Okay, so we have another caller on the line. Hello, good evening. We have a caller from Ghana. Hello. Hi, good evening. Hi, good evening. Go ahead. Hello, Lisa. We can hear you. Good evening. Good evening. Please, I'm going to answer that. Yes, we can hear you. Thank you for calling Ebenezer. Okay, Ebenezer, call her from Ghana. Yes, I can hear you. Please go ahead. Hello, Ebenezer. Okay, all right. I think we lost him right there. Okay, like you were saying. Yes, so I was basically just saying that we can't just keep continuing to speculate because of course that's what we're used to as Nigerians. When we ask questions, we don't get the answer. We assume, oh, it could be this. It could be a political strategy. It could be... We don't know what it is. All we know as citizens is that please make life easier for us because, I mean, okay, now it's even worse now with the whole first scarcity. You have to bifurcate. They will not collect old currency. What are you going to do? It is the citizens that are still suffering from this thing. So whether we speculate or not, it is what it is. We won't have a choice but to go with it. However, like Damian said, please make it easy on us. If it's possible for there to be like a cycle in the sense that I am the one spending the money, right? And the people I'm giving my money to is going to the bank. So the conversation or the communication should go to business owners. Okay, because everything is about buying and selling. Everything about our life is you are going to wake up in the morning, food you will eat, you are exchanging your food for money. Your transportation, you're exchanging it, bus drivers, everything. So if they make it at the end of the course of business, business owners go and deposit the cash you have in the bank and ensure that as you even... For instance, I'm spending 1,000-era old notes. You should be giving me change in the new notes. Yes, you do not need to... Because we have to have like... It takes a village. It's not just the bank. But we have to consider ourselves and ensure that... For some reasons, sometimes just use that if we don't love each other in this country. It's true because if you really think about the next message, do you know how hard it is to stand on a queue in the bank? And you have all that things to do with your life. You go spend three hours in the bank and you're trying to deposit money. They're not really considering the citizens. And I feel like hopefully they're watching this show and they're listening to us. So they should make it easy. We've accepted it. But please make it easy for us. Hello. Secondary to money. Okay, hello. Hello. Hello, good evening. We can hear you. Please go ahead. Yeah, we really need. Yes, happy. Yeah. Okay, please go ahead. Okay, I'm in support of the old notes. I want the old notes to be banned. Why? Okay, so you're saying that you prefer the new notes, right? Yes. Hello. Are you saying that you prefer the new notes? Yes. So what do you think about the redesign of these notes? You think that these new notes are better than the old notes? No. For me, for me I'm not talking about the design. So I want the old money. Yes. I want it to ban the old money because major politicians, they are doing more than they have in this country. Okay. Because they have stopped so much amount of money that we are more than they want to use to... To bribe for the campaign. To God for this to come in election. So I'm in support for them to ban the old notes. Okay. Thank you very much for calling. Happy. Thank you. So like happy. But that doesn't really still stop it. Because they are still like, like she mentioned, they still have access to their account managers that they will still call to say, nah, bring bags of money for me. That's one thing about politics. This is not controlling it. Especially Nigerian politics. They do things because of the politicians. But it's... We the citizens. That suffers at the end of the day. That suffers at the grasp. That's not where we are at. And it's actually where the ones that suffer. Do you get? That's where we are at. We don't get considered when such decisions are being made. This thing that we're even talking about. So we talked about the businessman that has a lot of 500 million to deposit. What happens to this market woman that is only 500,000 that she has and they refuse to collect it at the money? 5,000 you mean. Well... Well, and they refuse to collect it. What happens to them? Yeah, so that was the question we were working on. Yeah, so we also talked about how this is actually going to help to fight insecurity and help keep napping and all of that. What are your thoughts on that? Do you think really changing the narrative would actually stop? No, it changed the system. It changed the system because they started doing dollars. Exactly what I was just going to say. We have a caller. We have a caller. Hello, good evening. Hello, good evening. I can hear you. Please can you turn down the volume of your device? I'm from Cross River. Okay, hi Jimmy from Cross River. Okay, I'm hearing you. So what do you think? What do you think about the redesigning of the Naira nodes? And also do you think the deadline is feasible? Can you hear me now? Yes, I can hear you. Can you hear me? Out of the design of the Naira nodes, you talk to the man here. He comes to the store on the outside now. That's how they were doing it. Am I am? Yes, you have to. I see there's a lot of people. There's a lot of people out there. So now we are taking this Naira to the store and there's a lot of people in there. We have to change the Naira. This one we have to go to the store. We have to go to the store. We cannot tell you anything. I don't think the deadline is feasible. No, are you there? Doctor, Jimmy are you there? Okay, I think we lost him again. Okay, so I was saying do you think the redesigning of the Naira nodes would actually curb kidnapping? And like I said, they've just changed their pattern. So that's the thing. So in Nigeria, we're known to be adaptable. We adapt and that's the reason why we don't complain too much about anything that is thrown at us because give it a few months, give it even a few days, depending on how. We'll find a way to get around it. And make memes around it. So that's the same thing for businesses, as much as a lot of businesses will suffer, but people will learn how to adapt if the deadline is not. And is it that or some people will lose their funds? Now for when it comes to terrorists, they started collecting in dollars. Now you can't change as much as they want to change the dons. Maybe that's where they'll be able, that's where the countries will be able to curb the one happening in Nigeria. Maybe they'll start with gold. Go change it to gold and bring it. But it will be a problem because how would they change it to funds? Trust me, it would constitute a problem. Okay, we have another caller, Zubairu. Hello Zubairu, good evening, we can hear you. Hello. Hello Zubairu. Hello. Hello, please go ahead, we can hear you. Hello. Good evening. Good evening. Okay, my suggestion on this is the design of Nigerian nodes. As far as I'm concerned, there is no need of a gym or a ride. This new node cannot be used as Zubairu, something like Zubairu. Once you get to do those things, all my call to the therapist or many of the CDN is that let this new design one be available so that we, the downtrodden customers or the people or the local people should have access to it any time they need. Okay. What do you think about the redesign of the nodes, Mr. Zubairu? Okay. Okay, he's gone. Okay, I think we have comments. All right, so there's the comments from our Waze regular fan, Daniel Illo. And he says, good evening, my dear beautiful sisters of what are you saying, hashtag Waze. Old narrow nodes versus new narrow nodes. Me personally, I'm not against change. My dear beautiful sister, Unwajaga, asks a very serious question. Is changing the currency the solution to our problems? And why now? Are they telling me that without elections, there would be no change of currency? Right. I was discussing one of my friends some few days ago and I told him that I prefer the old currency and he agreed with me. My dear beautiful sister, Lera, you're welcome back. Saying that I missed you and understatement. It's been a while and happy new year to you, beloved. You thank you so much, Daniel. Stop it. I'm turning red. Okay, so we've looked at this from different angles. Okay, so let's take this color. Hello, good evening. Hello, good evening. Good evening, my brother. Yes, good evening, sir. I'm back again. I have a Twitter story from Ghana. Okay. The original of YouTube. And I will switch the timeline. I think the time is usually one month. Yeah. I can't remember if it was in 1971, then I think it was then the person, the book was published one year. Somebody gave us one good year. So I think the one month is usually two months. That's the difference. It is definitely three months. That's it. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. I agree. Like the urgency is very suspicious. Right. It's really... Okay, so for the British, they said they're changing the image. Yes. From Queen Elizabeth to Prince Charles III. They thought it was the third. They've told us why. Is it that they don't have counterfeits in the UK? Or there's no corruption in the UK? Or there's no... No, please. I want to know now. But the reasons that they're giving to us are because what Nigerians is... And then the... Anyway, we'll see it here. It'll be extended. I mean, the CBN has a full handbook that answers the frequently asked questions about the NUNAR annals. I think we should look at it. And it answers a lot of these questions. You know what? That's where they mentioned all because of the cashless policy. They're trying to drive financial inclusion. They're trying to curb insecurity. They're increasing the security features of the note as well and all of that. Yes, I mean, that's okay. But then it just seems like, it's very suspicious. Why is this sudden move within this very short time? And then you're telling us that if by the end of January, we don't dust it for us. And it's delicate because it's money. If other proves that it's a political move, in my opinion, it just further proves that it's a political move because all the reasons that they have stated for changing the currency are very valid as a matter of facture. But we know that that's not the exact reason because if those were just the reasons, I think they would have exactly... They would have been sample times for the money to be in circulation and various other things. But it's just like, you must do it now or never. Why? Why? Clearly, it's a political move. All right, so we looked at this from the angle of quality. We looked at it from the angle of circulation. We looked at it and then we've asked ourselves, is this really necessary? We've talked about the deadlines. The deadline is actually feasible. But before we go, do ensure you follow us on Instagram at Way Show Africa. You can interact with us for them, drop a comment. And most importantly, follow all our social media engagements and remember to like, share, comment and invite your friends and family to watch and follow us. Thank you so much, NJ. Thank you, Dami. Thank you, Allero. It was nice being with you girls on the show today. We've lovely been here. If you missed today's course here, it is again. I don't have good news for those who want deadline of old narratives to be changed because we will not move it. Godwin, you may feel it. See you tomorrow at 8pm as we drink another great conversation to your screen.