Design:
The N200 note together with the
N100,
N500 and
N1000 notes represent the new generation
of currency notes in the Nigerian currency system. As with the N100, the most
recent development in security printing technology on paper and ink were incorporated
in the denomination.
The main feature in the front is the picture of
Alhaji
Sir Ahmadu Bello, - the Sarduana of Sokoto and the first Premier of Northern
Nigeria.
The back of the note depicts a pyramid of agricultural commodity and livestock
farming.
NEEDS:National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy was developed by the National Planning Commission, then headed by Prof Charles Soludo. It was endorsed by the Federal Executive Council of Nigeria as a poverty-alleviating strategy. The aim of the scheme was to meet the Millenium Developoment Goals of curbing the menace of poverty in Nigeria and bringing it to the barest minimum by the year 2015.