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Protest as naira exchanges at 208 to a dollar in 2015
Reminiscence is beginning to revive old memories in Nigeria over the economy in juxtaposition of the past with the present.
Senator Shehu Sani on Wednesday recalled a protest in January 2015 when a stakeholder in the Nigerian project agitated: ” 1 dollar now equals 208 Naira.
“This is getting out of hand.”
The exchange rate protest in 2015
This was Nigeria of 2015 in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In Nigeria of the present, 1 dollar exchanges for N1,482 in the administration of President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), at the time of this report.
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