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JUST IN: CBN MPC raises interest rate to 18%
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has voted to increase the benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 18. per cent.
Godwin Emefiele, CBN Governor disclosed this while reading the communiqué of the second MPC meeting of the year on Tuesday.
Emefiele who addressed journalists at the end of the two-day meeting in Abuja, on Tuesday, said the committee voted to keep the asymmetric corridor at +100 and -500 basis points around the MPR.
The governor stated the slight increase is to mitigate the effect of inflation and other economic issues.
The MPR has been on the rise since April 2022, when it was 11.50 per cent.
The rate impacts lending and inflation rates, and, when jacked up, consequently affects upward movement of prices of goods and services.
According to him, the MPC committee voted to raise the MPR by 50 basis point to 18 per cent, retain asymmetric corridor at +100 and -500 basis points around the MPR.”