The Central Bank of Nigeria is set to place forex restriction on selected commodities including sugar and wheat.
CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, stated this on Thursday in Nasarawa State during an inspection tour of the proposed $500m Dangote sugar processing facility.
He said, “We are looking at sugar and wheat. We started a programme on milk about two years ago, eventually, these products will go into our forex restriction list.”
The CBN governor added that the decision of the apex bank to include sugar and wheat on the forex restriction list was because the country spends $600m to $1bn importing sugar annually.
Emefiele noted that Nigerians must work together to produce these items in the country rather than import them.