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Multiple windows: Investors adopt equity templates for forex rate
Sopuruchi Onwuka With inability of businesses to secure adequate foreign exchange at official rates to drive transactions that transcend the country’s borders, business proposals involving international transactions have become source of confusing calculations. Whereas the official rates for the exchange…
CBN’s rate for Naira sends false economic signals
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports Between the N460 official rate for the dollar and the over N850 in the informal foreign exchange market, market pundits that generate data to simulate the direction of the economy are having hectic time. Whereas…
Naira redesign: Politicians dump Naira at forex market
Sopuruchi Onwuka Huge volumes of apparently stashed away for election purposes are finding their way to the parallel foreign exchange market on fears of being tracked if they make their ways to the banks. The rush to mop up foreign…
Moody’s places Nigeria’s biggest banks on downgrade review
Moody’s Investors Service has placed on review for downgrade the long-term deposit ratings, as well as the long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings of the nine largest banks in Nigeria under it coverage. In a statement, Moody’s said the…
Buhari piles up more debt via restructuring
Sopuruchi Onwuka The outgoing government of President Muhammadu Buhari is working to have more access to cash in the immediate term, pushing forward the obligation of debt servicing to the incoming administrations. In an interview she granted agency sources on…
Galloping inflation: CBN shoots lending rate to 15.5%
Nigeria’s central bank on Tuesday hiked its main lending rate by 150 basis points to 15.50%, its highest level yet and more than forecast, forging ahead with efforts to rein in inflation and ease pressure on the currency. Analysts had…
AGM: Oando shareholders task govt on oil theft, insecurity
Sopuruchi Onwuka Owners of indigenous energy independent firm, Oando Plc, have required the government to explore workable partnerships in addressing the rising incidents of oil theft and facility vandalism in the petroleum industry. Representatives of shareholder blocs who spoke at…
Buhari’s govt owes $47 Billion to the Nation’s Central Bank
Nigeria said it owes 20 trillion naira ($47 billion) to its central bank and the obligations are yet to be added to the African nation’s outstanding public debt, according to a report by the budget office. The debt figure is…
Naira takes deep plunge as CNB closes more windows
The Nigerian Naira rolled downhill on Wednesday in the foreign exchange market after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) shut out bureau de change operators from its trading windows. At the parallel market where foreign exchange is most accessible to…
Oriental News holds confab on Financial Inclusion
Key stakeholders in Nigeria’s financial sector would engage in a robust round table discussion on government’s key policy which centres around inclusive financial system that will cover all strata of the society. The experts drawn from key private sector organisations…
