[GIST] Foreign investors’ trapped $2bn dragging down external reserves – Rewane, others

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The clearing of foreign portfolio investors’ funds that have been trapped in Nigeria for months on the back of foreign exchange scarcity is putting downward pressure on the country’s external reserves. The International Monetary Fund had in February 2021 said there was an estimated $2bn backlog of requests for forex from the divestment of naira…