CBN will spend $3bn loan to stabilize economy – NEC

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The National Economic Council has reconfirmed that the $3 billion emergency loan obtained by the Federal Government in August will be used to stabilize the Nigerian economy. The loan is intended to address the ongoing fluctuations in the value of the naira, particularly in the Investors & Exporters’ window and the parallel market, where it reached N1000/$ earlier this month. Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, stated after the 136th NEC meeting at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja that they have confidence in the plan to improve revenue and believe that the $3 billion will prove beneficial in the future. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited had previously disclosed securing the $3 billion crude repayment loan from Afrexim Bank on August 16. The loan was aimed at settling taxes and royalties in advance and providing the Federal Government with the necessary dollar liquidity to stabilize the naira with limited risk. Despite fluctuations in the naira exchange rate, there has been a recent recovery in the parallel market following the nomination of Olayemi Cardoso as the CBN governor by President Bola Tinubu. Governor Sule emphasized that the new CBN team needed some time to work out the modalities for implementing the loan’s stabilizing measures, and no immediate need for a supplementary budget had arisen. Regarding the possibility of a supplementary budget, Governor Sule stated that no such requests had been presented to the NEC thus far, and it would depend on the evolving circumstances.

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