| The decision of the National Executive Council to approve the management process for the $1 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) could not have come at a better time given the current global economic turmoil ravaging many developed and developing countries across the world.
The NEC meeting,which was presided over by Vice-President Namadi Sambo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, also approved the increase of the Excess Crude Account to $10 billion from the present $5.3 billion, as part of a deliberate attempt to provide at least a three-month buffer protection for the nation’s economy and insulate it from the vagaries and uncertainties of the global economy, which has been fuelled by the volatility of crude oil prices at the international market...............................................Full Article: Source
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