{"id":240458,"date":"2026-08-06T07:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-approves-4-5bn-refinancing-of-state-owned-oil-company\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:33:55","slug":"nigeria-approves-4-5bn-refinancing-of-state-owned-oil-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-approves-4-5bn-refinancing-of-state-owned-oil-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Approves $4.5bn Refinancing of State-Owned Oil Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em> Nigeria has approved a new $4.5 billion loan to replace a 2023 loan of $3.3 billion. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nigeria&#8217;s National Economic Council (NEC) approved the refinancing of <a href=\"https:\/\/nnpcgroup.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NNPC<\/a> Limited&#8217;s $3.3 billion oil-backed pre-export finance facility, with a new $4.5 billion arrangement aimed at strengthening the country&#8217;s external reserves and freeing up funds for infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The presidency said late on Monday that the new facility, dubbed &#8220;Project Gazelle 2&#8221;, will refinance approximately $1.5 billion outstanding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060036.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Nigeria has approved a new $4.5 billion loan to replace a 2023 loan of $3.3 billion. Nigeria&#8217;s National Economic Council (NEC) approved the refinancing of NNPC Limited&#8217;s $3.3 billion oil-backed pre-export finance facility, with a new $4.5 billion arrangement aimed at strengthening the country&#8217;s external reserves and freeing up funds for infrastructure. The presidency said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[55062,258,256,8326,7156,257,4687,393,4221,55063,254,16865],"class_list":["post-240458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-4-5bn","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-company","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-oil","tag-refinancing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stateowned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240458","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=240458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}