Naira crashes massively at Aboki black market, see new exchange rate

Naira has crashed massively at Aboki Black Market, See New Exchange Rate below.

IDOMA VOICE that the Nigerian official currency, naira has crashed against the United States dollar exchanging at N580/$1 on Wednesday, 16, March 2022.

A survey conducted by IDOMA VOICE at the Bureau De Change (BDC) market in Ogba area of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city, on Wednesday afternoon, March 16, 2022, showed that the naira to usd exchanged at N580/$1, failing to maintain the N570 position of 1 dollar to naira it stood for more than eight days, months after usd to naira exchanged for N530/$1.

IDOMA VOICE reports that the players at the parallel market better known as the black market bought a dollar at N575 and sold for N580 on Wednesday afternoon, March 16, 2022, after they bought N572 and sold for N579 at the beginning of the week.

The exchange rate between the naira to dollar and dollar to naira on Wednesday showed that the Nigerian official currency, Naira has fallen against the United States dollar months after a steady rise which saw it gaining over N25 since it fell to its lowest of N575 to a dollar on September 20, 2021

Meanwhile, IDOMA VOICE reports that this is coming months after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had on July 27, 2021, suspended foreign exchange (forex) sales to BDC operators and directed all those with a genuine need for forex to revert to banks. The naira lost value at a whooping N85 to the dollar in less than two months from N490/$1 to N575/$1 on September 20.

 

James Ewaoche Amedu

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