Forex crisis: CBN set to inject additional dollars this week

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is set to inject more dollars through intervention segments of the market, thereby heightening expectations that the Naira will appreciate significantly during the week.

The spokesman of the apex Bank, Isaac Okorafor, while exchanging views with news men over the weekend, confirmed the anticipated interventions in most segments of the market during the week, with effect from today, Monday 8th,2017.

According to him, the Bureau De Change (BDC) and the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) along with other major segments will also receive the adequate intervention with a view to providing liquidity in the entire foreign exchange market.

Meanwhile, manufacturers have praised the CBN over the foreign exchange management strategy adopted recently.

The Director General of Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Segun Ajayi-Kadiri, was recently quoted as saying the, “the recent pronouncement of the CBN comes as a relief. If the intervention is sustained, there’s no doubt that we will have continued improvement in sourcing raw materials.”

TheNewsGuru.com reports that the apex bank has constantly release tranches of the United States dollars in all segments of the market in order to boost the Naira which has been on the decline for a while now.


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