Nigeria seeks approval for $5.5bn loan
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has approached the country’s House of Representatives to request approval for a new external borrowing amounting to $5.513bn. If approved, the loan would bring Nigerians’ external debt to $36.013. The country’s external debt as of December 2019, stood at $27.1bn while IMF had extended an emergency loan of $3.4bn to Nigeria…