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That\u2019s the joint stance of Tilewa Adebajo, CEO of CFG Advisory and Mustafa Chike-Obi, Chair of the Bank Directors Association of Nigeria in a new report. They say a release of 20-25 per cent CRR funds to be directed to lending to critical real sectors of the economy at interest rate of not more than 20 per cent among other recommendations will reduce average lending rates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1077],"tags":[3046,691],"class_list":["post-84837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-interest-rate","tag-nigeria","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Nigeria can resolve its high interest rate spreads - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Resolving the high interest rate to deposit spread in Nigeria requires coordinated and balanced approach that involves both monetary and fiscal policy measures.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/how-nigeria-can-resolve-its-high-interest-rate-spreads\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Nigeria can resolve its high interest rate spreads - 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