ABUJA, March 9 (Reuters) - Nigeria will cut size of its
budget in the face of sharp declines in the price of crude oil,
the nation's finance minister told reporters on Monday.
Zainab Ahmed, speaking in Abuja after a meeting with
President Muhammadu Buhari, said a committee including herself,
the minister of state for petroleum, the head of state oil
company NNPC and the central bank governor would determine the
size of the budget cut in the coming days and revisit the
benchmark crude oil price of $57 a barrel used to calculate the
budget.
Benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1 were down 19.5% at
$36.43 a barrel by 1449 GMT.