How many of you have seen the new naira notes? Is it the most beautiful note you've ever seen or what? I went to the bank today and was given the notes and I just couldn't believe I was staring at our naira notes. There's a huge difference between this new ones and the old ones.
This are some differences I noted
The new naira notes are shorter in lenght and smaller in size.
The twenty naira has a transparent Nigeria's cote of arm on it.
The new notes all have their value written in Nigeria's three major Languages, Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa.
The new notes cannot easily be folded. When you try to fold it, It unfolds itself. It can't be easily squeezed and ruffled.
The new notes don't seem to be printed with paper. I'm not sure what exactly it's made of but I'll find out and let you guys know
The new notes now have pictures of women on them unlike the old notes
The new twenty naira, which is the finest of them all, is much greener than the old note
The Ten naira note looks like the 'euro', just a lot more beautiful
Only the five ten, twenty and fifty naira notes were changed. The one, two, five hundred naira notes will remain as they are, at least for now. And did I mention the re-introduction of coins? Yes...we now have one, two and five naira in coins. So now we can buy sweet or chewing gum for one naira instead of the regular three for five naira.
This notes were formally introduced to Nigerian's yesterday, February 28th, 2007.
The central bank has said that the old noted can be used up until ending of may, when hopefully it would have fizzled out. In otherwords, from June 2007, all the old notes will be unusable.
If the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Charles Soludo, was running for 'Office', I would have voted for him. He's a visionary and has done more for our currency and economy than any other Governor before him. These are the kind of people we need in Nigeria. Congratulations to all Nigerians. Hopefully oneday, our economy will give us something to rejoice about
There's nothing I love more than history...ok maybe fashion...and modeling...and writing...and reading...then history. For those of you like me who love history, this is for you. Enjoy!
March 1st in History
1780: Pennsylvania becomes the first American state to abolish slavery
1932: The baby son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped
1954: First American hydrogen bomb test on the island of Bikini
1966: First ever (crash) landing on Venus took place by the soviet probe Venus 3
1978: Coffin of Charles Chaplin stolen, only months after being buried
March 1st birthdays
1810: Frederic Chopin, Polish composer
1902: Langston Hughes, American poet
1904: Glenn Miller, American bandleader
1910: David Niven, Scottish actor
1927: Harry Belafonte, American singer
1954: Ron Howard, American director
