Nigeria’s banking sector recorded a further deterioration in asset quality in January 2026, as the non-performing loans ratio rose to 8.03%, seven months after the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ended key regulatory forbearance measures that had allowed banks to restructure troubled loans without immediately classifying them as impaired.
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