Many bank customers 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 chores which were time consuming,” she said.

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