Nigeria’s legal tender, the naira currently trades at N890 per dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange (FX) market.
The figure signifies an appreciation of 60 or 6.3 percent from the N950 it traded last week.
Bureaux De Change (BDC) operators in the Victoria Island area of Lagos that spoke to TheCable on Wednesday afternoon said the naira has been consistently appreciating against the US currency at the black market.
They pegged the price of the dollar at N870 and the selling price at N890, leaving a N20 profit market.
“Dollar has been dropping. Yesterday, I sold it for N930. No matter how the dollar goes up, it always comes back down. That’s how it is,” a currency trader in the Victoria Island market said.
Meanwhile, currency traders in the Agbara area of Ogun state said they are currently buying the local currency at N850/$ and selling it for N860 per dollar.
At the investors and exporters (I&E) forex window, the local currency depreciated by 4.08 percent to close at N774.77/$ on Tuesday, according to details on FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange — a platform where FX is officially traded.
An exchange rate of N799.9 to the dollar was the highest rate recorded within the day’s trading before it settled at N774.77.
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Recall that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, had on Monday said it would take new actions to ensure the stabilisation of the naira against the dollar.
Folasodun Shonubi, acting governor of the CBN, said President Bola Tinubu was worried about the consistent fall of the local currency against the greenback, hence efforts would be made to curb the situation.
“We do not believe that the changes going on in the parallel market are driven by pure economic demand and supply, but are touched by speculative demand from people,” Shonubi said.
“Some of the plans and strategies, which I am not at liberty to share with you, means sooner rather than later, the speculators should be careful because we believe the things we’re doing, when they come to fruition, may result in significant losses to them.
“But my presence here is more about the concerns the president has and his needs to know that we are doing something about it, assurances of which I have given him totally.
“We are doing things that will significantly impact the market in a few days time and we will all see it.”
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