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- CHARLES ABUEDE

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GOVERNOR GODWIN EMEFIELE, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) honcho, simply gave it away as, perhaps, one of his many adventures in the fiscal policy space, when he announced another leg in the dogged pursuit of his chosen role as a ‘developmen­t’ central banker, the RT200 FX Programme, designed to see Nigeria accrete $200 bilMOUNTAI­N lion within three to five years from non-oil exports.

Last Thursday in Abuja, as chairman of the Bankers Committee, when he took the

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