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Nigeria’s new foreign exchange policy is good news - but it can’t work wonders for the economy on its own

Posted on Thu 22 June 2023 in Nigeria • Tagged with Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Tinubu, APC, Naira, Dollar, IMF

A man exchanges Nigeria’s Naira for US dollars in Lagos in April 2021. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Stephen Onyeiwu, Allegheny College

The Central Bank of Nigeria recently announced changes to the way the country’s foreign exchange market will work. Foreign currencies can now be bought …

All hail the new Emir of Kano

Posted on Thu 12 June 2014 in Nigeria • Tagged with opinion, politics, APC, Central Bank of Nigeria, Emir of Kano, Goodluck Jonathan, Kano State, Kano, Lamido Sanusi, PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan

Emir-Of-Kano

So a former Central Bank Governor becomes an Emir and not everyone is pleased, who would have thought huh?. The inauguration of Lamido Sanusi as the Emir of Kano after the previous Emir Bayero died was seen as more of a political move by the Governor of the State who …