{"id":225025,"date":"2026-02-25T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cbn-reduces-interest-rates-by-50-basis-points-to-26-5-percent\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:40:15","slug":"nigeria-cbn-reduces-interest-rates-by-50-basis-points-to-26-5-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cbn-reduces-interest-rates-by-50-basis-points-to-26-5-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: CBN Reduces Interest Rates By 50 Basis Points to 26.5 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reduced Monetary Policy Rates (MPR) by 50 basis points from 27 per cent to 26.5 per cent<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Central Bank governor, Olayemi Cardoso, made the disclosure while briefing the media at the end of the 304th Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Abuja on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Next Stay 40 42 00:00 00:00 \/ 00:00 10 Sec<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">&#8220;The Committee decided to reduce monetary policy rates by 50 basis points to 26.5%<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;Also, Committee decided to retain the cash reserve requirements for deposit money&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240610.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reduced Monetary Policy Rates (MPR) by 50 basis points from 27 per cent to 26.5 per cent Central Bank governor, Olayemi Cardoso, made the disclosure while briefing the media at the end of the 304th Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Abuja on Tuesday Next Stay 40 42 00:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,22539,6666,4378,257,4687,393,6720,7508,12850,10446,254],"class_list":["post-225025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basis","tag-cbn","tag-interest","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-percent","tag-points","tag-rates","tag-reduces","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}