The central bank governor Godwin Emefiele is short of friends due to the farce around the new naira banknotes his own political manoeuvring last year and his arcane foreign exchange policies...

At the heart of their case is central bank governor Godwin Emefiele's mishandled plan to issue new naira banknotes and recall some 2...

Critics of CBN governor Godwin Emefiele already lambasting his foreign exchange policies see the Ways and Means imbroglio as another reason to force him out...

Bank governor Godwin Emefiele insisted it is to promote a transition to digital currency and a cashless economy (AC Vol 63 No 25 It takes more than new banknotes…)...

5% CBN governor Godwin Emefiele has cumulatively raised rates by 5% this year more than any other African central bank except those of Ghana and Egypt...

At the centre of this push is Godwin Emefiele who styles himself as a development-oriented governor of the central bank: a former managing director of Zenith Bank he happily orders the country's banks to lend more to priority economic sectors while using a range of policy fixes to defend the value of the naira against the US dollar...

'This is the best option at this time' said Nigeria's central bank governor Godwin Emefiele after hiking the base interest rate to an all-time high of 15...