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Friday, June 21
2019 09:00 AM/ DMO
The Debt Management Office (DMO) wishes
to refute reports carried out in various media on June 19, 2019 stating that
the Federal Government has no plans to issue Eurobonds as part of its external
borrowing in 2019. The misrepresentation appears to have arisen during the
Islamic Finance News Nigeria forum which held in Lagos on June 18, 2019, where
the Director-General responded to a question on whether the Federal Government
will issue a U.S. Dollar denominated Sukuk in 2019 which she stated was
unlikely given the processes involved in the Sukuk issuance.
For the records, the 2019 Appropriation
Act provides for New External Borrowing of N824.82 billion
(equivalent of USD2.7 billion at USD/N305). Consistent with the Debt
Management Strategy of reducing debt service cost, the plan for raising the New
External Borrowing is to first access cheaper funding from Multilateral and
Bilateral lenders as may be available. Thereafter, any balance will be raised
from Commercial sources which may include Securities Issuance such as Eurobonds
in the International Capital Market.
The DMO wishes to reiterate that it will
continue to focus on its objective of reducing debt service costs by
emphasizing borrowing from concessional sources while considering Eurobonds and
other commercial sources as secondary options.
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