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Cash Withdrawal Limit: We’re Concerned About CBN Policy — Senate
Senators have expressed reservations over the new policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on cash withdrawals. The apex bank, under the new withdrawal policy, restricted the maximum cash withdrawal over the counter (OTC) by individuals and corporate organisations per week to N100,000 and N500,000 respectively. The Senate Minority Leader Phillip Aduda (PDP, FCT) had, during Wednesday’s plenary called the...
[BREAKING] COVID-19: FG Reduces 2020 Budget
The Federal Government has sent a new budget proposal to the National Assembly for consideration in view of global economic realities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The new proposal sighted by The Nation, which is being considered by the National Assembly, reduced the 2020 estimate from. N10.594 trillion to N10.276 trillion. It also reduces the oil benchmark from $57...
How Nigeria Spent N896.7bn On Debt Servicing In Q1’22
Nigeria spent N896.7 billion on domestic and foreign debt servicing in the first quarter of 2022, Q1’22 , representing a 12 per cent year-on-year (YoY) decline from N1.02 trillion spent in the corresponding period of 2021. In its External and Domes...
FG Targets Five Million Jobs From €995m Agric Programme
The Federal Government says it is targeting about five million jobs for farmers through the €995m agricultural mechanisation programme. The initiative was aimed at boosting food security for the country. ABN TV reports that under the initiative, it added that facilities comprising tractors and other agricultural machinery were expected to be leased out to Nigerian farmers. It stated that this was coming...
Banks borrow N19.6tn from CBN amid rising liquidity problems
Commercial banks borrowed a total of N19.64tn from the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2019, an increase of 73 per cent from the N11.36tn borrowed in 2018. This has raised concerns among analysts following the rising liquidity problems in the financial services sector. This happened barely one month after the World Bank warned the CBN against supporting undercapitalised banks indefinitely. According to...
How Buhari Intends To Spend $22.7m Foreign Loan
Here is how the Buhari administration plans to spend the loan and where the projects are located as contained in the document: INFRASTRUCTURE – Emergency road rehabilitation and maintenance ($434.7m, nationwide) – Abidjan-Lagos corridor highway development project study ($1.5m; multinational) – Abuja mass rail transit project (phase 2) ($1.25bn; FCT) – East-west road ($800m; Niger Delta) – Nigeria Housing Finance Project Guarantee Scheme ($100m;...
FG Earmarks N2.55tr For Subsidy In Supplementary Budget
President Muhammadu Buhari has earmarked N2.55trillion for fuel subsidy in the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill transmitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval. The Federal Government had informed the subsidy regime will end in June 2022. Fuel queues appeared since last week across the nation over rising import costs of the product. READ ALSO: President Buhari Submits Supplementary Budget To NASS...
Buhari Jets Out To Saudi Arabia, To Attend Investment Summit, Lesser Hajj
President Muhammadu Buhari will today (Monday) depart for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to participate in the investment conference organised by the Future Investment Initiative Institute. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this on Sunday in a statement titled, ‘President Buhari to participate in investment summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’. The President will be joined...
AEDC Vows To Disconnect MDAs, Aso Villa, DHQ, CBN Others Over Heavy Debt
No fewer than 86 ministries, agencies and departments of government are owing the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company to the tune of N47bn. According to a public notice by the management of the AEDC, the Presidential Villa owes the DisCo the sum of N923.9m; the National Security Adviser owes N95.9bn; the Ministry of the Federal Capital Territory being supervised by Nyesom...
BREAKING: CBN Reduces Monetary Policy Rate To 12.5%
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday reduced monetary policy rate (MPR), or the controlling lending rate to 12.5 percent, ABN TV reports. It, however, left other monetary policy parameters unchanged. Reading the communique of the meeting, CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, said the MPC resolved to retain the Liquidity Ratio at 30 percent, Cash Reserve...
