Nigeria’s authorities have ceased central bank deficit monetisation via the ways and means facility. But the government will struggle to finance its ambitious spending plans – particularly given the challenges of raising revenues. We suspect that the authorities will try to tap to global capital markets, but this will increase FX debts and the vulnerability of the public finances to currency weakness.
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