{"id":14715,"date":"2020-05-22T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T09:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=14715"},"modified":"2020-05-22T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T09:37:14","slug":"cbn-reschedules-mpc-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=14715","title":{"rendered":"CBN reschedules MPC meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Emefiele-Godwin.jpg\" alt=\"Emefiele Godwin\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Thursday rescheduled its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting slated for next week due to the public holidays declared by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/federal-government-hopes\/\">Federal Government<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting which was earlier fixed for May 25 and May 26 has now been shifted forward to May 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal government had on Thursday declared the two days as public holidays to celebrate the Eid-el-Fitr, an annual festival signalling the end of Muslim\u2019s holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CBN Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Isaac Okorafor, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, said the apex bank had put necessary machinery in place for the meeting to take place in one day due to the COVID-19 induced lockdown in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe step was also to align this meeting with extant rules of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 and advisories from other relevant agencies,\u201d the CBN spokesman added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Thursday rescheduled its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting slated for next week due to the public holidays declared by the&nbsp;Federal Government. 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