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The Central Bank of Nigeria recently released the quarterly report for Q1 2009. Here is the summary:
- GDP grew by 6.4% in 2008 and 6.3% for the first quarter compared with 5.7% for the same period in 2008.
- The projected growth was driven mainly the non-oil sector particularly agriculture which accounted for 35.5% (according to the National Bureau of Statistics).
- Broad and Narrow Money contracted by 1.9% and 3.9% respectively relative to the preceding quarter. Decline in Broad Money was a result of the fall in the foreign assets of the banking system.
- There was a general increase in banks’ deposits and lending rates in Q1.
- The spread between the weighted average term deposit and
maximum lending rates widened from 8.13 percentage points in the preceding quarter to 9.97 percentage points.
- The margin between the average savings deposit and maximum lending rates, also, widened from 16.62 to 19.33 percentage points during the period.
- The weighted average inter-bank call rate rose to 15.79 per cent from 14.01 per cent in the preceding quarter, reflecting the liquidity condition in the inter-bank funds market.
- The value of money market assets outstanding rose by 5.5% in Q1.
- Total federally collected revenue stood at N1.18 trillion, a decline of 10.8% and 31.9% from the proportionate budget estimate and preceding quarter levels.
- Oil recipts constituted 71.2% of total revenue. This was a decline of 39.5% from the previous quarter and attributed to the decline in oil and gas sales.
- Crude oil export was 110.7 million barrels for teh quarter.
- Inflation rate was 14.4% compared with 15.1% in the previous quarter.
- There was a net outflow of $5.53billion through the CBN during the quarter.
- The Naira depreciated 17% in value during the quarter.