IMF First Deputy Managing Director Geoffrey Okamoto Remarks to IDB Miami-LAC Conference June 24, 2021/IMF The Light Box at Wynwood — Miami, Florida As Prepared for Delivery I want to thank the IDB for inviting me to be here with all of you this week. As a technologist, who then […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Q1 2021 Debt Figure: A Good Reason for Higher External Debt Service
June 24, 2021/United Capital Research The FGN’s external debt service payments amounted to USD1.00bn in Q1 ’21, a combination of USD760m and USD240m due to market and non-market creditors respectively. Once we exclude the FGN’s decision to pay down the USD500m Eurobond maturing in January and therefore ease its debt […]
Nigeria Aims Further Legislation at Inefficient Power Sector
June 24, 2021/CSL Research At the commencement of the fourth republic in 1999, the FGN promulgated the National Electric Power Policy, aimed at entrenching efficiency in the Nigerian power sector by transferring ownership and management of the sector’s infrastructure to the private sector. This continued till 2005, when the Electric […]
