The nation’s foreign exchange reserves fell by 4.9 per cent to
$29.79bn on March 30, from $31.35bn in February, data from the Central
Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday showed.
Year-on-year, the reserves
fell by 21.3 per cent from $37.83bn in March 2014 to stand at the new
balance
of $29.79bn on Monday, the data showed.
The external reserves have continued to drop at a faster pace due to
low demand for the nation’s crude oil and its falling prices globally.
Nigeria derives 70 per cent of its revenue and 90 per cent of its foreign exchange from crude oil.
The central bank has been using the reserves to support the ailing
naira, which has been hammered by the falling global oil prices and
uncertainty over the just concluded presidential elections.
Economic and financial analysts linked the huge drop in the stock of
external reserves to political spending, falling oil prices, which have
put pressure on the local currency, and speculative demand for the
dollar by foreign exchange dealers.
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