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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

House approves sovereign wealth fund creation

The House of Representatives yesterday passed the sovereign wealth fund (SWF) bill, a week after the senate delivered the legislation proposed by the federal government to hold billions of oil revenue differentials between budget benchmarks and actual market prices.

Seeking to avoid a harmonization procedure, the house approved the senate's version of the law and passed the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority bill, with an initial investment minimum of the naira equivalence of $1 billion.