Day: April 20, 2020
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Interest rate conundrum
The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) is proposing a revised budget for 2020 which is designed to generate a deficit in the region of N5.2 trillion (US$13.5 billion), up from the previous estimate of N2.2 trillion. Normally one would expect the prospect of rising government debt to spur interest rate rises. But there appears to […]
