Nigeria’s central bank restricted foreign-currency transfers by international oil companies as it seeks to boost dollar liquidity in the domestic market and help stabilize the plunging naira.

Going forward, international oil companies may only remit half their export earnings to their parent companies, with the balance to be repatriated 90 days from the date of inflow of the export proceeds, the bank said in a circularBloomberg Terminal dated Wednesday.

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