JUST IN: CBN Retains Benchmark Interest Rate At 11.5%

Central Bank has retained MPR at 11.5%, holding other key rates constant.

Gatekeepers News reports that Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has voted to retain the monetary policy rate (MPR), which measures interest rate, at 11.5 percent.

Addressing journalists on Tuesday after the committee’s two-day meeting at the CBN headquarters in Abuja, Godwin Emefiele, governor of the apex bank, said the committee members unanimously retained key rates constant.

According to Emefiele, the committee voted to maintain the key lending rate at 11.5 percent, with the asymmetric corridor of +100 and -700 basis points around the MPR.

This is a developing story.