Nigeria's central bank has told commercial lenders to set aside extra provisions against their dollar loans immediately in the wake of the sharp fall in the naira.
The local currency has dropped 40 percent since June, when Nigeria ditched its 16-month-old peg of 197 naira to the dollar in a bid to l
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