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Nigeria Plans $10 Billion Diaspora Fund to Attract Dollar Remmitances

Nigeria is planning to set up a $10 billion diaspora fund to attract investment from its citizens living abroad to support critical sectors including...

CBN Partners Money Transfer Companies in Bid to Double Remittances to Nigeria

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has secured the cooperation of some International Money Tranfer Organisations (IMTOs) to double the flow of remittances to...

Nigeria Set To Receive Fresh $2.2bn World Bank Loan – Edun

The Federal Government is set to receive around $2.2 billion single-digit interest loan from the World bank and another budget support facility from the...

FAAC Shares N1.1trn March 2024 Revenue To FG, States, LGCs

The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Friday shared a total sum of N1.123 trillion March 2024 Federation Account Revenue to the three tiers...

Banks Keep N17.26trn With CBN as Monetary Tightening Restricts Lending

Monetary tightening by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is restricting lenders from extending credit to support an ailing economy even as the regulator...

Nigeria’s Inflation Rate Surges to 33.2% in March

Nigeria’s headline inflation rate reached 33.2 percent in March 2024. This represents a 1.5 percentage points year-on-year (YoY) increase from 31.7 percent recorded in...

CBN Bans Forex Collateral on Naira Loans, Sells Dollars to BDC’s at N1,101/$

The central bank on Monday offered to sell dollars to the country’s bureaux de change (BDC's) at the highest level since the naira was...

Oil Prices Near Six-month High After Israel Bombs Iran consulate

Oil prices have risen more than 10% this year, and they’re near a six-month high after after Israeli jets dropped bombs on Iran’s consulate...

CBN Directs Banks to Expedite Action On Recapitalisation

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed deposit money banks in the country to expedite action on recapitalisation of their capital base from the...

Nigeria’s Central Bank Raises Interest Rate To 24.75 Percent

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has hiked the benchmark interest rate by 200 basis points to 24.75...

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