Nigeria’s Dollar Crackdown Risks Stoking Illegal Trading

  • Central bank is tightening rules for importers and exporters
  • Naira to experience more speculative attacks: United Capital

     

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Nigeria’s all-out effort to defend its currency by targeting importers and exporters with tougher regulations risks pushing more currency traders to the black market and more companies into distress.