{"id":62063,"date":"2025-03-03T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62063"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:03:02","slug":"fg-opens-march-savings-bonds-with-up-to-17-6-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/03\/fg-opens-march-savings-bonds-with-up-to-17-6-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Opens March Savings Bonds with Up to 17.6% Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has unveiled its March 2025 savings bonds, offering Nigerians investment opportunities with annual interest rates of 16.635% and 17.635%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Debt Management Office (DMO), the two-year bond, maturing in March 2027, comes with a 16.635% interest rate, while the three-year bond, set to mature in March 2028, offers 17.635%.<\/p>\n<p>Subscriptions are open from March 3 to March 7, with payments beginning on March 12. Investors can participate with as little as N5,000 and in multiples of N1,000, up to N50 million. Interest is paid quarterly, with full capital repayment at maturity.<\/p>\n<p>The DMO reassured investors of the bonds&#8217; security, stating that they are government-backed, tax-free for pension funds and select investors, and tradable on the Nigerian Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>This offer follows the government&#8217;s successful February bond auction, which raised N1.63 trillion as part of its N13 trillion borrowing plan for the 2025 national budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Federal Government has unveiled its March 2025 savings bonds, offering Nigerians investment opportunities with annual interest rates of 16.635% and 17.635%. According to the Debt Management Office (DMO), the two-year bond, maturing in March 2027, comes with a 16.635% interest rate, while the three-year bond, set to mature in March 2028, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62065,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62063\/revisions\/62065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}