“Other countries are doing it” – CBN insists on the introduction of N5,000 note : so now its confirmed ...**seems our reason for not wanting it is not understood...thieves everywhere will imagine their is a 5,000 naira note in your purse and if one note is misplaced can't imagine my look**all is well sha as them no gree hear our own...Nigerians are known for survival we will survive this one too **

Despite the hullabaloo trailing Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) decision to introduce N5, 000 notes, the director persists that Nigeria economy needs to move forward, thus they would forge ahead with the printing of the new single note.
The apex bank also said it has resolved to stop the production of polymer currency notes.
Its Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Ugochukwu Okoroafor, spoke with reporters in Abuja.
He said the apex bank would sensitize the public on the introduction of N5, 000 notes into the economy.
According to the CBN spokesman, “people the world over thought polymer will be a great replacement for paper currency but it has not turned out the way it was planned”.
Polymer notes, he said, are “difficult to destroy, incinerating old currency notes through briquetting was difficult in the case of polymer notes in an environmentally friendly way.”
In addition, he said polymer currency “is produced by just one company in the world, an Australian company called Securrency.”

The CBN, he said, has tried using polymer currency notes “and decided that polymer is not the way to go. It is time to move in the right direction than to continue in a direction that may not be favorable; it was a decision that didn’t quite turn out well, the whole world experimented with polymer and people thought that polymer was okay until they learnt otherwise.”
This move to do away with polymer notes he said is consistent with the CBN position of changing with times and technology, saying that “we must move forward and that is why the currency review is important”.
He said: “We are about to carry out sensitization campaign on the introduction of N5000 note and the restructuring of the nation’s other currencies. Everything will not take off at the first quarter of next year. We are starting with a particular currency in the first quarter of next year; there will still be currency and coins for the denominations that will be coined like N5, N10 and N20 so that both will be operational side by side.”
Okoroafor said it would be cheaper to print and issue N5000 note.
Traders, who move money around, he said, would appreciate the need for the issuance of N5000 note while those at the low end of the transaction chain would also benefit from the new currency restructuring initiative.
He said the apex bank has started talking to relevant authorities, including members of the National Assembly on the currency restructuring initiative.
The restructuring exercise, he said, is within the mandate of the CBN.
Okoroafor said the president has given approval for the campaign to begin.
He said: “We want to be among the top 20 largest economy in 2020; we believe in it. What we should do is pray for Nigeria to have a financial system that can support one of the world’s largest economies. We cannot do it, if we don’t have the right framework.
“We want to ensure that life is made a lot easier for Nigerians and will continue to improve the system.”
Okoroafor said the report that N40 billion would be spent to print the N5000 note is false, saying the cost is in the CBN annual report.