CBN Increases Interest Rate to 17.5% The Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee has decided to raise the benchmark interest rate by 1 percentage point, bringing it to 17.5%. This was announced by the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, during the first MPC meeting of the year on Tuesday. This marks the fifth time the
READ MORECBN Raises Interest Rate to 14% The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 14%. The chair of the Committee and Governor of CBN, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this during a post-MPC briefing in Lagos. The interest rate, which was pegged at 11.5% for
READ MORECBN Raises Interest Rate to 13% The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has voted unanimously to raise the benchmark interest rate to 13% after two and half years of expansionary monetary policy. This was disclosed by the Governor of the CBN, Godwin Emefiele, while reading the communique of the 142nd
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