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‘Saudis need 120,000 heads of goat/sheep per week from Nigeria’ CBN


The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that Saudi Arabia may need up to 120,000 heads of frozen goat/sheep per week from Nigeria.
The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this while delivering the keynote lecture titled ‘The Dilemma of Monetary Policy During a Recession: Potential Options for Nigeria’, at the  2017 Annual General Conference of  the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) holding in Lagos

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