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CBN’s MPR: Separating optics from impacts
Sopuruchi Onwuka The recent decision by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to cut interest rates by 50 basis points to 26.5 percent raises harder questions about how the official economic indicators connect with the palpable situation on ground. According…
Nigeria’s external reserves hit 13-year high as CBN cuts rate amid falling inflation
“Gross external reserves surpass $50 billion, providing nearly 10 months of import cover, while year-on-year inflation eases for the eleventh consecutive month, prompting a 50bps reduction in the Monetary Policy Rate to 26.5%.” Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria’s gross external reserves rose…
Fuel import data mirrors domestic market turmoil
Local refiners yet deliver cost benefits to Nigerians Sopuruchi Onwuka The performance of the domestic fuel production industry dominated the latest report by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the country’s trade performance in the past two years. Although…
NUPRC: NNPC used up N267.4 bn Frontier Exploration Fund
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission says it has released all approved Frontier Exploration Fund allocations to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, with no outstanding balance left in the Central Bank of Nigeria account. According to Eniola…
External Reserves grows to $38.5bn as Tinubu borrows $21bn
Sopuruchi Onwuka Enhanced inflow of foreign exchange from diverse sources has helped raise the Nigerian external reserves to $38.5 billion at the weekend, leading to bearish sentiments at the foreign exchange market where the value of the local Naira has…
Money market awaits signals as CBN’s MPC holds 1st meeting
Sopuruchi Onwuka Players in the Nigerian financial markets are in full attention as the new administration of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) convenes its first monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting at the end of February to roll out new…
Nigeria’s inflation overshoots to near-two-decade high in July
Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria’s inflation on global ratings jumped by 1.3 percent in one month to reach troubling 24.1 percent just one month after the new government of President Bola Tinubu came into office and pulled all the price triggers in…
CBN in secret $8 bn deals with Goldman, JPMorgan
Granted unofficial N22.9 tn debt to Buhari’s govt Nigeria’s central bank disclosed huge $8.0 billion deals with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs in documents that also confirmed it illegally advanced massive N23.18 trillion instead of statutory N252 billion to the…
Tinubu’s forex blunder sends inflation soaring
Sopuruchi Onwuka The Naira fell to a new low on Friday as new gaps begin to emerge between official rates and the parallel market despite despite the executive fiat by the new administration of Alhaji Bola Tinubu to enforce a…
CBN’s forex mishap leaves the Naira rolling downhill __EIU
Sopuruchi Onwuka The hasty moves by the current administration of the federal government to dismantle all support instruments installed by the ousted Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, has pushed the Naira into a helpless…
