Nigeria's Foreign Debt Service Gulps $3.5bn in 2024 - Report The Federal Government spent $3.58 billion servicing its foreign debt in the first nine months of 2024, representing a 39.77 per cent increase from the $2.56bn spent during the same period in 2023. This is according...

Foreign Exchange Policy, Interest Rate Increase Foreign Portfolio Investment by 170%   The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) high interest rate regime and foreign exchange policy have whetted the appetite of Foreign Portfolio Investors, FPIs, as inflows amounting to N696.88 billion came into the stock market...

Nigeria’s Oil Export Earnings Decline to $12.1bn   Nigeria’s crude oil export earnings slumped to $12.1 billion in Q2, 2024 as against $12.4 billion in the preceding Q1, reflecting the decline in domestic crude oil production to 1.27 million barrels per day in Q2, 2024 from...

Report Reveals Naira May Weaken to N1,993/$1   The naira is forecasted to depreciate to N1,993 against the United States dollar by 2028, posing a significant challenge to Nigeria’s pharmaceutical industry, particularly in importing essential medical devices, a new report by BMI, a Fitch Solutions subsidiary,...

Naira to Strengthen Further in January - Rewane Bismarck Rewane, an economist, has projected that the naira will strengthen further in January 2025 compared to its current weak trading position. Rewane made this known during his monthly presentation at the Lagos Business School Executive Breakfast Session,...

CBN Approves Banks to Trade with Deposited FX The Central Bank of Nigeria has issued guidelines to banks on implementing the free foreign exchange deposit window announced by the Federal Government recently. The guidelines released by the CBN on Tuesday provided the modalities for the participation...