'Foreign Investors’ Trapped $2bn Dragging Down External Reserves'       The clearing of foreign portfolio investors’ funds that have been trapped in Nigeria for months on the back of foreign exchange scarcity is putting downward pressure on the country’s external reserves. The International Monetary Fund had in February...

Nigeria Faces Serious Debt Sustainability Risk - LCCI       The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has expressed concerns that Nigeria faces serious fiscal sustainability risk over its national debt profile. LCCI noted that the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio, which the government is using as a measure...

IMF Endorses Digital Money For Cheaper Remittance, Cross-border Payments       The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has called on governments and individuals to adopt digital money for “faster, easier and cheaper” remittance and cross-border payments. Georgieva stated this at a virtual workshop...

IMF Proposes $650bn Special Drawing Rights To Members — Kristalina Georgieva       The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is to propose a $650 billion Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to its member countries in the organisation’s efforts to boost their reserve positions. The Managing Director (MD) of the IMF,...

W/Bank To Address Nigeria, Poor Countries’ Debt Overhang     The President, World Bank Group, Mr David Malpass, said the group is working actively in collaboration with the International Monetary Fund on the common framework that the G20 established for dealing with debt overhang and debt burdens. He...

IMF Raises Nigeria’s Growth Forecast To 2.5%       The International Monetary Fund has raised Nigeria’s growth forecast for 2021 to 2.5 per cent from 1.5 per cent earlier announced in January. It disclosed this in its World Economic Outlook for April with the theme ‘Managing divergent recoveries’,...