Nigeria's Foreign Exchange Markets (Working Paper Series, 1/1991)

Previously a financial journalist, the author is now a banker and stockbroker. He captures the trends and developments in Nigeria's foreign exchange markets since independence. He examines how the exchange value was established by Britian in 1916, the official first and second tier foreign exchange markets, the bureaux de change, the parallel markets, and how they operated. First-hand data is cited from the Central Bank of Nigeria, and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation.