A Nigerian man triggered a stir in one of the new-generation banks when he went to deposit $500,000, approximately N200 million.
The photograph of the unidentified man circulated on social media has left many asking ‘God when.’
The photograph was taken in an unknown financial institution in Nigeria and has left many bewildered about why such an amount of dollars would be hoarded or kept by an individual.
is not clear if the person had violated the money laundering act as Nigeria grapples with dollar scarcity which previously led to the crash of the naira.
A foreign money trader in Lagos, Ishaya Abdul, said that currently, there are so many dollars in the market. He said many forex traders are disposing of the dollars as the purported threats by the US swirl around. He said: “What is happening now is that most FX traders are releasing the dollars they have hoarded in the past. Right now, the dollar is crashing very fast.”
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