Liability and interest cover complaxed (2)

Sorry about the silly question before

Apollo took out a new loan on 1 January 2016. This loan carries an effective interest rate of 8%. The initial proceeds of the loan are $2.5m, which is after paying issue costs of $250k. The coupon rate on the loan is 6%. Apollo must keep an interest cover ratio of 9 times under the arrangements made with the bank.

What operating profit must be maintained by Apollo in the year ended 31 December 2016, in order to meet the minimum interest cover ration specified by the bank?

the answer is 1,800,000

but my answer is 1,980,000

cuz only nominal value is used to get an interest payment which is 220,000 in this question.

I already looked over all the questions solved before about getting interest payments.
in this case, only nominal value must be used…. we haven’t considered issue costs and so on to get that interest payment.

why was that issue cost considered?