I am surprised I did not know about this since 2 days ago. It is true and I have confirmed it.
Does it sound like a relief to you if your transactions required going through these third parties?
You mean the naira master card? It is cheaper that than those that are providing virtual USD cards. I used 3 among them but I saw more of their cons than their pros. I had a very bad experience with Chipper Cash.
If not, then over these periods of time, how have you been dealing with this ban if your transactions required this route?
Later I was able to pay for YouTube Premium and other subscriptions with Opay naira virtual card. I moved to it from those foreign cards since likely more than 2 years now.
I found the lifting of the ban useful, but my question is, what was the essence of the band in the first place, to what advantage did the band give us as a people, because this is the question to ask ourselves before celebrating whatever the Federal government has decided to do now.
Naira price was falling and the last government were doing all things possible to tackle it even if the citizens will suffer. It was done by Emefiele when Buhari was the president. You can see other stupid things that he did like no well planned naira redesign that resulted to death.
The naira is relatively better now and not falling like before.