Nigeria seeks $3.5 billion to fund record budget
Staff writer ▼ | February 3, 2016Nigeria's government is in talks for loans worth $3.5 billion from the World Bank and African Development Bank to help finance a planned record budget this year.

African economy Nigeria relies on crude for almost all its exports
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's administration is seeking to spend its way out of an economic crisis triggered by a collapse in oil prices. Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer and relies on crude for almost all its exports and two-thirds of government revenue.
Buhari has proposed boosting this year's budget to a record 6.1 trillion naira ($30.7 billion). Adeosun said that authorities are to borrow about $5 billion in external debt from multilateral agencies and the Eurobond market to plug a record budget gap of 3 trillion naira. ■