Nigeria: Loan rumours leave key questions unanswered

A reported US$3.5bn loan from the World Bank and AfDB would only cover about 15% of Nigeria’s gross external financing requirement. In any case, a loan would come with politically difficult conditions, so we doubt that a deal will be made over the short term.

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