Nigeria’s Inter-Bank Market Gets $210 CBN Intervention
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), again on Tuesday, Tuesday, February 27, 2018, made interventions in the inter-bank sector of the Foreign Exchange market with the injection of $210m into three segments of the market. A breakdown of the intervention indicates that the CBN offered the sum of $100m to dealers in the wholesale window, while those in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) window received an allocation of $55m. The invisibles segment, comprising Business/Personal Travel Allowances, school tuition, medicals, etc., was also allocated the sum of $55m. The CBN spokesman, Isaac Okorafor, in disclosing these, said the Bank would continue to make the interventions, in spite of the fact that the country’s reserve has enjoyed accretion in the past weeks, bringing the figure to about $42bn. Okorafor was upbeat that the forex management strategy was yielding the desired result; hence, he noted that the CBN would continue to sustain its activities in the market in order to ...