{"id":30722,"date":"2024-05-09T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=30722"},"modified":"2024-05-09T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:04:38","slug":"northern-elders-forum-opposes-cbns-cybersecurity-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/09\/northern-elders-forum-opposes-cbns-cybersecurity-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Elders Forum Opposes CBN\u2019s Cybersecurity Levy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has added to the ranks of opposition to the recently announced cybersecurity levy on bank customers by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released by its Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, the forum expressed its dissatisfaction with the policy, citing the escalating costs associated with banking transactions as a result of multiple charges.<\/p>\n<p>The forum called on the government to reconsider the policy and explore alternative measures to ease the financial strain on individuals while still promoting the use of electronic payments.<\/p>\n<p>It pointed out that the introduction of cybersecurity levies, in addition to existing fees such as stamp duty, transfer fees, value-added tax, and SMS charges, has placed an unbearable financial burden on individuals engaging in electronic transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has added to the ranks of opposition to the recently announced cybersecurity levy on bank customers by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In a statement released by its Director of Publicity and Advocacy, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, the forum expressed its dissatisfaction with the policy, citing the escalating costs associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30724,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30722\/revisions\/30724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}