As Nigeria faces perhaps its biggest economic test in decades, the move by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to convert the N4.4 trillion the federal government owes it into securities shows how constrained the balance sheet of the CBN is. Securitisation ­– the conversion of an asset, especially
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