CBN releases additional $250m for agriculture, airlines

Adejoke Adeogun
Adejoke Adeogun
Many bundle of US 100 dollars bank notes

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday released another $250 million on 7 to 30 day forwards for agriculture, airline, petroleum products and raw materials.

The acting Director, Corporate Communications, CBN, Isaac Okorafor, said in a statement that the bank also called for bid for $100 million wholesale spot for traveling allowances, medical and tuition fees.

He said that the apex bank had also commenced heavy injections into the spot market in addition to the settlement of requests for wholesale spot bids for invisibles like school fees, medicals and personal travel allowance.

It will be recalled that earlier this week, the apex Bank had disbursed $20,000 each to the Bureau De Change (BDC) operators in two tranches of $10,000, to ensure liquidity in the foreign exchange market.

On Monday, the bank auctioned $100 million to be settled between one week and 30 days.

It also auctioned $418 million at N310 to a dollar to airlines, agricultural firms, petroleum and raw material importers in addition to the $350 million it sold last week.

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