Nigeria’s total debt rises to N22.43trn

Nigeria’s total debt rises to N22.43trn - DMO

- Emerging reports have claimed that Nigeria’s total debt now stands at N22.43 trillion

- The Debt Management Office stated that the nation’s total debt as of September 30, 2018, stood at N22.43tn

- The data further showed that the external debt component of the country’s total debt stood at $10.32bn as of June 30, 2015

The data obtained from the Debt Management Office (DMO) have shown that Nigeria’s total debt now stands at N22.43 trillion.

The Punch reports that DMO stated that the nation’s total debt as of September 30, 2018, stood at N22.43tn. As of June 30, 2015, the country’s total debt stood at N12.12tn.

According to the office, this means that within the tenure of the present administration which came to power on May 29, 2015, the country’s total debt has risen by N10.31tn or 85.06 per cent.

Of the total debt, the external component of both the federal government and state governments’ debts including that of the Federal Capital Territory stood at $21.59bn.

As of June 30, 2015, the external debt component of the country’s total debt stood at $10.32bn. This means that the external debt component rose by $11.27bn or 109.21 per cent. On the other hand, the domestic debt of both the federal government and the subnational governments stood at N15.81tn.

Analysing the debt statistics further states that the domestic debt of the Federal Government alone stood at N12.29tn as of September 30, 2018. The domestic debt of the federal government as of June 30, 2015, stood at N8.4bn while that of the states and FCT stood at N1.69tn.

The DMO added that the debt statistics as of September 30, 2018, was only slightly different from the statistics as of June 30, 2018.

On the difference between the debt statistics of the two quarters, the DMO said, “External debt declined by 2.02 per cent to $21.59bn due largely to the redemption by Nigeria of a $500m Eurobond which matured on July 12, 2018.

“The Eurobond which was issued for a tenor of five years in 2013 was the first Eurobond maturity for Nigeria and Nigeria’s ability to repay it seamlessly boosted Nigeria’s position as a good credit in the International Capital Market.

“The domestic debt of the FGN, states and the FCT grew by 1.19 per cent from N15.63tn in June 2018 to N15.8tn in September 2018. This increase of N185bn was attributed to the FGN (N135bn) and states and FCT (N50bn).”

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“The combination of an increase in the level of domestic debt and a decrease in the external debt stock resulted in a slight shift in the portfolio composition. As of September 30, 2018, the share of domestic debt was 70.51 per cent compared to 69.83 per cent in June 2018.

“This trend is expected to be reversed in Quarter Four 2018 as the new external borrowing of N849bn (about $2.78bn) provided in the 2018 Appropriation Act is expected to be raised within the quarter.”

It was learnt that the current strategy of the federal government is to raise external debt component to 40 per cent and to raise the local debt component to 60 per cent in order to take advantage of the lower interest rate on foreign debts.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that National Bureau of Statistics revealed that debts incurred by Nigeria has risen to $22.08bn and N15.63tn, respectively at the end of the second quarter of this year.

Despite the enviable economic value of Lagos state, it has the largest share of the foreign and local debts among the 36 states in the country coupled with that of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

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