A few days to deadline- Customers besiege banks for BVN exercise...

Vanguards news has reported that many bank customers in Makurdi on Monday besieged their banks to collect their Bank Verification Number (BVN) a week to the deadline of the exercise. 
The BVN is for biometric registration of all bank customers in the country.  NAN reports that while many customers had done their registration, a good number is yet to comply with the Central Bank’s directive.  A cross section of customers who spoke to NAN said that they could not participate in the exercise early enough because of their crowded schedules.  A First Bank customer, Mrs Dorcas Atim, said that she was just delivered of a baby when the exercise commenced, hence her inability to do the verification earlier than now.  ”I was doing everything by myself and as such I had little or no time to spare for other things other than my domestic choirs which were time consuming,” she said.  At UBA, a customer, Mr Atom Iordaa, said he was unable to register before now because of the nature of his job which was quite demanding.
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