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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed its plan to issue treasury bills worth N570.4m in the second quarter.
The CBN disclosed this in a report titled ‘Nigeria treasury bills issue programme for the second quarter’ and made available on its website on March 18, 2021.
The central bank explained further that maturing bills in the period would total N570.4m.The CBN said that it would issue N92.05m 91-day bills; N79.65m 182-day bills; and N398.7m 364-day bills during the period.
According to the apex bank, the maturing bills during the period are N92.05m 91-day bills; N79.68m 182-day bills; and N398.7m 364-day bills.
The banking regulator said: “Offer amounts are subject to change at short notice, one unit of NTB = N1,000.”
Recently, it was reported that the upward movement of the one-year treasury bill stop rate had continued at the primary market auction.
The report stated that it was observed when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) sold the investment tool to investors. It was learnt that the CBN was at the market on Wednesday, March 10, with N88.90 billion worth of T-bills.
According to the piece of information, the first sale in the month of March 2021 that N4.4 billion worth of 91-day bill, N14.0 billion worth of 182-day bill and N70.5 billion worth of 364-day bill were auctioned during the session.
Meanwhile, the bills were oversubscribed on the back of the rising yields in the fixed income market, which is making the financial assets more attractive to investors.
The report also noted that the details of the exercise indicated that N18.4 billion was staked on the short-dated instrument, N53.0 billion was staked on the mid-dated instrument and N125.4 billion was staked on the long-dated instrument, amounting to N196.8 billion.
The CBN, however, allotted N4.7 billion for the 91-day maturity, N23.5 billion was allotted for the 182-day maturity and N80.6 billion was allotted for the 364-day maturity, totalling N108.8 billion.
The details of the sales showed that the central bank cleared the three-month tenor at a stop rate of 2.00 per cent, the same rate at the previous exercise.
It was learnt that the stop rate of the six-month tenor was left unchanged at 3.50 per cent, while the 12-month tenor cleared at 6.50 per cent, higher than 5.50 per cent of the previous PMA.
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