President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to implement a set of new financial sanctions against the Niger Republic’s junta as well as their associates.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale, said this during a briefing at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

The President’s spokesman maintained that they are being instituted under the authority of the ECOWAS.

Nigeria has already cut off electricity transmission to its northern neighbours to pressurize the military to reinstate ousted President Mohamed Bazoum.