Naira extends gain to end week on good note against US dollar

The naira prolonged beneficial properties on Friday to end the week on a correct suppose against the US dollar at the legit foreign alternate market.

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s recordsdata showed that the Naira extra strengthened to N1,417.95 per dollar on Friday, up from N1,419.28 recorded on Thursday.

This means that the Naira beneficial properties N1.33 against the dollar on a day-to-day basis at the legit FX market.

Within the meantime, at the dark market, the Naira remained stable at N1490 per dollar on Friday, the same rate recorded for the necessary fragment of the week, essentially essentially based totally on a Bureau De Trade operator, Hassan Abubakar.

DAILY POST experiences that on per week-on-week basis the Naira gained N5.22 against the dollar when in contrast with N1,423.1674 exchanged closing Friday.

The pattern comes as the nation’s foreign reserves rose to $forty five.86 billion as of January 15th, 2026.