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Fitch Expresses Confidence In Tinubu’s Economic Reforms, Upgrades Nigeria’s Credit Rating To Stable

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April 12, 2025
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Fitch, a global rating agency, has reviewed Nigeria’s long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) from negative to stable.

IDR is an entity’s relative vulnerability to default (including by way of a distressed debt exchange) on financial obligations.

In a statement on Friday, the agency said Nigeria’s outlook was revised to B’, from ‘B-‘.

“The upgrade reflects increased confidence in the government’s broad commitment to policy reforms implemented since its move to orthodox economic policies in June 2023, including exchange rate liberalisation, monetary policy tightening and steps to end deficit monetisation and remove fuel subsidies.

“These have improved policy coherence and credibility and reduced economic distortions and near-term risks to macroeconomic stability, enhancing resilience in the context of persistent domestic challenges and heightened external risks,” Fitch said.

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According to the statement, the stable outlook reflects Fitch’s expectation that the macroeconomic policy stance will support the move to lower inflation and sustain improvements in the foreign exchange (FX) market’s operation, though it will likely remain much higher than rating peers.

Additionally, the rating agency said “we anticipate a continued reduction in external vulnerabilities through further easing of domestic FC supply constraints, while renewed energy sector reforms should help sustain current account surpluses

“Greater formalisation of FX activity including the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) recent introduction of an electronic FX matching platform and a new FX code to enhance transparency and efficiency, along with monetary policy tightening, has led to a greater rise in FX liquidity and general stability in the FX market after a 40% depreciation in 2024, closing the spread between the official and parallel exchange rates.

“Net official FX inflows through the CBN and autonomous sources rose by about 89% in 2Q24, compared to an 8% rise in 2Q23.

“We expect continued formalisation of FX activity to support the exchange rate, although we anticipate modest depreciation in the short term.

“The CBN has tightened monetary conditions through a combination of policy rate hikes to 27.5% (up 875bp since February 2024) and use of prudential and operational tools such as open market operations (at rates closely aligned to the MPR) to strengthen monetary policy transmission after years of financial repression,” Fitch said

‘INFLATION TO AVERAGE 22 PERCENT IN 2025’

Furthermore, Fitch projected inflation, which hit 23.2 percent year-on-year in February under the recently rebased consumer price index (CPI), “to average 22% in 2025 (‘B’ median 4.3%) and 20% in 2026”.

The firm predicted a premature easing of monetary policy “that would undermine the benign effects of the policy adjustment, given high inflation”.

In the medium-term, Fitch said the rating was driven by Nigeria’s external reserves, which have rebounded significantly following recent policy reforms, although there are still challenges.

Also, the agency said gross official reserves reached $41 billion by the end of 2024, recovering from a low of $32 billion in mid-2024, but later declined to $38 billion due to increased debt service payments.

Fitch projected the current account surplus, estimated at 6.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, to average 3.3 percent of GDP in 2025-2026.

“There is a lack of detail on the composition of reserves amid recent indications by the central bank that place net reserves at USD23 billion at end-2024, up from about USD4 billion at end-2023,” the agency said.

“Nonetheless, we estimate that roughly 14% of gross reserves comprise FX swaps with local banks, down from 25% in our November 2024 assessment, amid increased efforts by the CBN to reduce FX liabilities.”

‘NIGERIA’S OIL PRODUCTION TO INCREASE IN 2025′

Also, Fitch said Nigeria’s oil refining sector is poised for a boost in 2025 as the Dangote refinery scales up operations to reach 0.65 million barrels per day (bpd) capacity by the end of the second quarter from 0.55 mbpd currently.

“We expect crude oil production (excluding condensates) to increase in 2025-2026, averaging 1.43 mbpd, from 1.34 mbpd in 2024, helped by improved onshore surveillance and increased investments by local oil companies,” the company projected.

“However, underinvestment and production outages persist, constraining production below 2019 levels.”

Furthermore, Fitch predicted that the impact of US tariffs on Nigeria’s trade position with the US will be limited, amid the exclusion of oil-related exports, which accounted for about 92 percent of total exports (nearly 2 percent of GDP) to the US in 2023.

“Lower oil prices pose a bigger risk as they would weaken external buffers and fiscal metrics and test the new policy framework,” the agency said.

Nevertheless, Fitch said greater policy flexibility enhances Nigeria’s ability to deal with shocks. (vitalnewsngr.com)

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