News emanating from Nigeria reveals that the country’s central bank has allegedly placed a ban on buying and selling cryptocurrencies.
A circular disseminated by the Nigerian Central Bank has revealed the apex bank’s intention to clamp down on bitcoin buying and selling. The Central Bank issued a memo signed by its Director of Finance and Policy Regulation, Kevin Amugo, in 2017, warning against the use of unregulated virtual currencies and highlighted the place of virtual currencies in facilitating money laundering and financing terrorism.
