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World Bank, China, Nigeria’s highest creditors

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Minister-of-Finance-Zainab-Ahmed

Data obtained from the Debt Management Office has revealed that the World Bank and the Exim Bank of China are Nigeria’s largest creditors with a combined portfolio of $11.46 billion.

Statistics obtained on Wednesday shows that this constituted 34.75 per cent of the country’s $25.61bn external indebtedness as of March 31.

The World Bank Group alone has a portfolio of $8.9bn in Nigeria.

While the World Bank is a multilateral lender, the Exim Bank of China is a bilateral lender, implementing orders from the government of China especially in financing projects being executed by Chinese firms.

The group is made up of the International Development Association which gives out concessional loans and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development which gives out commercial loans.

The African Development Bank Group is another multilateral agency to which the country owes $1.25bn. This makes up 4.88 per cent of the nation’s external debt.

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The country is indebted to the African Development Fund to the tune of $834.18m which constitutes 3.26 per cent of the country’s external debt.

Other multilateral agencies to which Nigeria is indebted include the Arab Bank for Development in Africa, Electricite de France, the Islamic Development Fund and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

They have a portfolio of $5.88m, $59.15m, $15.51m and $176.19m respectively. These, respectively, constitute 0.02 per cent, 0.23 per cent, 0.06 per cent and 0.69 per cent of Nigeria’s external debt.

The country owes all the multilateral agencies put together the sum of $11.25bn. This constitutes 43.92 per cent of the nation’s external debt.

On the bilateral level, China is Nigeria’s biggest creditor with a portfolio of $2.55bn. This constitutes 9.96 per cent of the country’s external debt.

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