The naira has appreciated to N740 per dollar at the parallel section of the foreign exchange market, popularly called the black market.
The figure, according to TheCable signifies a N10 or 1.3 percent gain compared to the N750 it traded last week.
Bureaux De Change operators said they purchase the greenback at N725/$, make a gain of N15 and then sell at N740/$.
The street traders attributed the appreciation of the currency to moderation in demand for dollars by importers and a slight improvement in supply during the festive season.
“We have dollars and people are coming to buy. But the customers are not buying plenty of dollars,” a BDC operator at Alade Market in Ikeja, Lagos, told TheCable.
Meanwhile, at the investors and exporters forex window, the local currency depreciated by 0.05 percent to N456.50/$ on Friday (the last trading day), according to data from the FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange — a platform that oversees official foreign exchange trading in Nigeria.
A total of $155.86 million was traded at the exchange last Friday — a 39.95 percent increase compared to the $111.37 million recorded on Thursday.
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