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Bismarck Rewane Proffers Solutions to Nigeria’s Currency Problem

...says Naira not jinxed, reports Tobi Adetunji

by Techeconomy
February 6, 2024
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Bismarck Rewane speaks about the Naira

Bismarck Rewane speaks about the Naira

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Bismarck Rewane, a front-line Economist in Nigeria, has canvassed for a broad perspective in addressing the problem surrounding the Naira, emphasizing that the Naira is not jinx.

He said this on Monday, against the background of the lingering Foreign Exchange challenges affecting the country, and in the wake of a rebuttal by the Central Bank of Nigeria that it has no plan to convert $30 billion deposits in domiciliary account holdings into naira.

He declared that the country’s official currency is undergoing transition and not cursed as being speculated in some quarters.

Rewane, the managing director of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, stated this when he was featured as a guest on Channels Television’s late-night program, Politics Today.

He noted that “Some of the problems are structural, some are transit. So we have to understand it in that context. But you know that the fundamental problem with the naira is that any country that has high inflation and a cost of living crisis will always have a weak currency.

While admitting that tough days lie ahead for Nigerians, Bismarck Rewane said the free fall of the naira is not a problem that cannot be solved by one silver bullet.

He said, “No, I don’t think the naira is jinxed. It is just a currency in transition. And you can see that in 2016, it was N499 per dollar. As of this afternoon (Monday), it was N1,468. It had dropped to N1,531 per dollar sometime last week and started finding its way back.

“So, we have tough days ahead. But the point is that you have to look at it in the context of the currency in transition to weigh its fair value.

“Some of the problems are structural, some are transit. So we have to understand it in that context. But you know that the fundamental problem with the naira is that any country that has high inflation and cost of living crisis will always have a weak currency.

“To address that, you have to look at it from a broad perspective. It is not one silver bullet that can solve all problems.”

Rewane added that “for instance, in 2004, it was $1.70 that will give you one pound. Today, it is about $1.27 which gives one pound. We have three types of systems.

“We have fixed, floating, and management exchange rates. In the world, 38 percent of the currencies are called flexible exchange rates. Another 35 percent is what you call the floating rate.”

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