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Naira strengthens further against dollar

Naira strengthens further against dollar

Indeed, Naira devaluation is probably the most potent weapon against the prosperity of Nigerians. Nigeria’s migration from a potential industrial power house with bustling social affluence, to a subdued and stumbling economy clearly began with the adoption of IMF’s Structural Adjustment Programme during Babangida’s regime: the chorus from International Agencies, at that time, was also that falling oil prices with an unserviced debt burden and the consequent restriction of trade credit to Nigeria, were the products of an allegedly overvalued Naira exchange rate.

The Naira on Wednesday appreciated further against the dollar at the parallel market.

The Nigerian currency traded between N340 and N341 to a dollar at the close of trading, from N345 it exchanged on Monday.

The Pound Sterling and the Euro also traded between N480 and N488 and N380, N385 against the naira, respectively.

Meanwhile the official Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) rate remained at N197 to the dollar.

Traders at the market told NAN that trading at the market went undisturbed by the industrial action called by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)