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Temitayo Jaiyeola, Kariola Mustapha, Amarachi Orjiude and Sami Olatunji
Published 15 June 2021
Temitayo Jaiyeola, Kariola Mustapha, Amarachi Orjiude and Sami Olatunji
Published 15 June 2021
• $719.61m used to service Chinese loans since inception in 2015
The Buhari’s administration has borrowed $2.02bn as loans from China from 2015, data obtained from the Debt Management Office on Monday showed.
According to the statistics obtained from the DMO, Nigeria’s total debt from China as of June 30, 2015 stood at $1.38bn.
However, as of March 31, the country’s debt portfolio from China had risen to $3.40bn.
According to the DMO, loans from China are concessional loans with interest rates of 2.50 per cent per annum, a tenor of 20 years and grace period (moratorium) of seven years.
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Vanessa Obioha writes that the rising debt profile of Nigeria brings a scrutiny on President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, which is arguably, the only government that has borrowed more than any in the new democratic dispensation and perhaps the only administration that has recorded two economic recessions
Nigeria’s economy, like most nations in the world, contracted due to the unprecedented Coronavirus pandemic last year. The global crash in oil prices forced the country to suspend the external commercial borrowing as indicated by the Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed. Ninety per cent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and about 60 per cent of its total revenue are from the oil sector.