{"id":19017,"date":"2024-06-10T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=19017"},"modified":"2024-06-10T09:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:20:18","slug":"false-cbn-not-set-to-revoke-licences-of-unity-keystone-polaris-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/false-cbn-not-set-to-revoke-licences-of-unity-keystone-polaris-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"FALSE! CBN not set to revoke licences of Unity, Keystone, Polaris banks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claim: A media outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/thescrutinyng.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/cbn-to-revoke-licences-of-unitybank-keystone-polaris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) plans to revoke the licenses of Unity Bank, Keystone, and Polaris.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-4f7f4ac387cb3be4caf45b6840fd3f74 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#ea1313\"><strong>Verdict: False. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has debunked the report as false, as there is no plan to revoke the licences of Unity, Keystone, and Polaris Bank.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Full Text<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, June 3, 2024, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/700366-cbn-revokes-licence-of-heritage-bank.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revoked<\/a> Heritage Bank Plc&#8217;s banking licence. The revocation resulted from the bank&#8217;s board and management&#8217;s inability to improve its financial performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">However, <a href=\"https:\/\/thescrutinyng.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/03\/cbn-to-revoke-licences-of-unitybank-keystone-polaris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Scrutiny<\/a> published a report on June 3, 2024, claiming that the CBN plans to revoke the licences of Unity, Keystone, and Polaris Bank. The news outlet also posted the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheScrutinyNG\/status\/1797720929969287391?t=b6KzLazKRFL7t8NJqB8TBg&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> via its X handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to the sensitivity of the report, DUBAWA decided to verify it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Verification<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">DUBAWA conducted a Google search to verify the claim, but no credible media outlet has published a report corroborating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">We went further to check the official X page of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cenbank\/status\/1797894388623765974?t=8jpwmGxzjsDUOskPLIA7RQ&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)<\/a> to confirm the assertion and found no statement or post validating the claim. Instead, a debunked report was seen where the claim was crossed as \u201cFake content\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-us.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfzEezW22Q1gzkAaRNSCrk5jLtCjqcn1fh--SNw8woi3Bln40k18UKukwI6b4GtcSb86HefwgmkCquahfaXRpXY1Hx2BVmCbJadPwEBkiGfwFpFSgcxShe_dvy_MXvEd-x4ohZus7le15_kd7oGSZNcD-KU?key=sulYn8tqod6bXc1y-_vS8Q\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Screenshot of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) debunking the claim<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, we also came across reports by some credible media outlets debunking the claim as false <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/cbn-denies-plans-to-revoke-unity-polaris-keystone-banks-licenses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2024\/06\/cbn-denies-alleged-plans-to-revoke-licences-of-unity-polaris-keystone-banks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecable.ng\/cbn-denies-planning-to-revoke-licences-of-unity-bank-polaris-bank-keystone\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Our findings show that CBN did not revoke the licenses of Unity Bank, Keystone, and Polaris, as reported by The Scrutiny; the claim is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim: A media outlet reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) plans to revoke the licenses of Unity Bank, Keystone, and Polaris. Verdict: False. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has debunked the report as false, as there is no plan to revoke the licences of Unity, Keystone, and Polaris Bank. Full Text On Monday, June 3, 2024, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revoked Heritage Bank Plc&#8217;s banking licence. The revocation resulted from the bank&#8217;s board and management&#8217;s inability to improve its financial performance. However, The Scrutiny published a report on June 3, 2024, claiming that the CBN plans to revoke the licences of Unity, Keystone, and Polaris Bank. The news outlet also posted the report via its X handle. Due to the sensitivity of the report, DUBAWA decided to verify it. Verification DUBAWA conducted a Google search to verify the claim, but no credible media outlet has published a report corroborating it. We went further to check the official X page of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to confirm the assertion and found no statement or post validating the claim. Instead, a debunked report was seen where the claim was crossed as \u201cFake content\u201d Moreover, we also came across reports by some credible media outlets debunking the claim as false here, here, and here. Conclusion Our findings show that CBN did not revoke the licenses of Unity Bank, Keystone, and Polaris, as reported by The Scrutiny; the claim is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1571,120,3812,3815],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[4055],"class_list":["post-19017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-economy","category-headline","category-homepage"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-4WJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4055,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"miracle-akubuo","display_name":"Miracle Akubuo","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CBN-image.png?fit=690%2C432&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19019,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19017\/revisions\/19019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19017"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=19017"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=19017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}