EFCC goes after dollar speculators, CBN slashes banks allocations

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Deposit Money Banks are battling dollar shortage after the Central Bank of Nigeria slashed their foreign exchange allocations, The PUNCH has learnt.

On the Investors & Exporters window, trading of the naira commenced at 785.89/$ and reached a high of 799.90/$ before closing at 774.77/$ on Tuesday; it closed at 764.68/$ on Monday.

He said, “People don’t have confidence in naira again; when people have money, they go to the BDCs and buy the dollar and keep. The best intervention they can do is to see how they can get the economy to be productive, but now, we are importing a lot. It would be recalled that in July 2021, the CBN discontinued dollar allocation to the BDCs, but continued through the Deposit Money Banks.

 

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