How CBN Will Use $3bn Loan To Stabilise Naira - NEC | READ MORE
Faith Ukanwa
Sep 29, 2023
How CBN Will Use $3bn Loan To Stabilise Naira - NEC | READ MORE
The National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday affirmed that the $3bn emergency loan-for-crude oil the Federal Government secured in August would be deployed to stabilise the naira, whose value has continued to fluctuate in the Investors & Exporters' window and worsened in the parallel market, hitting N1000/$ earlier this month.
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Addressing State House correspondents after the 136th NEC meeting, which was held at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, the Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, said, "So, we are very confident and we still believe very strongly that with the plan that will come out and with all these items that have been listed on the improvement of revenue, the $3bn shall be useful to us down the line.ÔÇØ
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On August 16, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited revealed that it secured an emergency $3bn crude repayment loan from Afrexim Bank to relieve pressure on the naira.
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It said the loan would enable it to settle taxes and royalties in advance.
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It would also equip the Federal Government with the necessary dollar liquidity to stabilise the naira, with limited risk.
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However, the naira has continued to fluctuate in the I&E window and worsened at the parallel market, hitting N1000/$ the week before last.
It recovered on Friday, September 22, 2023, after President Bola Tinubu nominated Olayemi Cardoso as CBN governor. The naira moved upwards by N10 against the dollar in the black market, closing at N990/$1.
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Asked when the intervention would kick in and if there would be a need for a supplementary budget, Sule said "The $3bn that was taken in order to stabilise the naira. As you have seen we have a new team at the CBN and the new team that is just coming in is asking for a little bit of time in order to work out the modalities.
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"It is one thing to take the loan it is another to plan the process of the stabilisation because it's going to take a while.
"The CBN governor was just confirmed a few days back and he started rolling out his plans of what to do.ÔÇØ
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On the supplementary budget, Sule "Supplementary budget is a request that will come as a result of whatever is happening right now. I'm not sure there is a need for a supplementary budget immediately. So far, there have been no supplementary budget requests that were presented to NEC.ÔÇØ
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