The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, has said that the dollar could settle at six fifty naira to seven fifty naira before the end of 2023.
He said this while assuring Nigerians of an ongoing plan by the government to introduce new foreign exchange rules which will make the local currency regain true value before December 2023.
Oyedele said the plan would include a crackdown on illicit currency trading and would result in naira closing its gap with the unofficial rate, adding that the government will clear a backlog of dollar demand estimated at about six point seven billion dollars.
“the federal government plans to introduce new foreign exchange rules, including a crackdown on illicit currency trading.
“We think all of that will happen before December, and maybe in a matter of a couple of weeks we will begin to see the results…”
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