LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s government is working on a new policy to buy oil products with gold rather than U.S. dollar reserves, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia said on Facebook on Thursday. The move is meant to tackle dwindling foreign currency reserves coupled with demand for dollars by oil importers, which is weakening the local cedi and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said the dollar might drop to ₦200 after the redesigning of naira. Bawa stated this in an interview with Deutsche Welle (DW) Hausa service, saying President Muhammadu Buhari did well to approve the redesigning. He said, “The law…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have complained that despite the naira’s gains in the past week, the costs of goods and services remain high. Recall that the naira miraculously recovered to N680/$ after reaching an all-time low of N900/$. Black market traders attributed the sudden improvement to eased demand and increased inflows of FX in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission raided the offices of black market currency dealers in Abuja on Tuesday in a bid to halt the rapid fall of the naira. Naira plunged rapidly between Monday and Tuesday to more than 840 in Abuja a week after the the Central Bank of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s inflation rate hit a fresh 17-year high in September, stoked by a slide in the value of the naira that raised the cost of imported goods like gas and liquid fuel. Annual inflation accelerated to 20.8%, compared with 20.5% in August, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The dollar hit N735 in the parallel market on Wednesday as political campaign activities began in the country. According to Bureau De Change operators in Lagos and Abuja, dollar price had increased from N718 – N720 to N728-N735 in the last one week. A BDC operator at Amuwo-Odofin in Lagos, Bala Usman,…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bank customers are now unable to withdraw dollars from their domiciliary accounts amid a worsened scarcity of the currency in the financial services sector Legit.ng investigation has revealed. Bank managers in 10 commercial branches visited in Ikeja, Ejigbo, Ago Palace, and Airport Road all confirmed the unavailability of dollars for withdrawal over…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s currency fell to the lowest on record after traders adjusted prices to reflect the rate Central Bank of Nigeria sold the currency amid a lack of dollar supply in the authorized foreign-exchange market. The naira retreated 1.6% to 426.26 a dollar as of 3.30 p.m. local time on the investors and…
