Nigeria Businesses Lose $29bn Yearly To Poor Electricity – W/Bank       The World Bank on Wednesday said businesses in Nigeria lose about $29bn annually as a result of the country’s unreliable electricity. It also observed that Nigeria had the largest number of people without access to electricity...

Nigeria’s Trade Deficit Rises By 49% To $2.5bn     The nation’s trade deficit rose month-on-month by 49 percent to $2.5 billion in January from $1.69 billion in December last year even as foreign trade stood at $8.14 billion during the period. Also capital importation dropped by 31...

Nigeria, Others Lose N380bn Annually To Gulf Of Guinea Piracy Nigeria and other countries in the Gulf of Guinea have lost N380 billion yearly to sea robbers and pirates between 2015 and 2019. Data presented at the Nigerian Admiralty Colloquium in Lagos also showed that...

Nigeria’s Exact Crude Oil Production Volume Unknown, Says NEITI       The exact volume of crude oil produced in Nigeria, especially at the deep offshore fields, is not known by anyone, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative said on Thursday. Executive Secretary, NEITI, Orji Ogbonnaya-Orji, disclosed this in...

Is Nigeria in Trouble?, By Gidado Y. Shuaib The title of this piece is a poser triggered by a blunt remark by Mr. Godwin Obaseki, the formidable political arch-rival of a former Edo State Governor and immediate past Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC),...

‘Nigeria Can Export $3bn Worth Of Cocoa Derivatives Under AfCFTA’       The federal government has disclosed that by taking advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Nigeria has the capacity to export $3 billion worth of derivatives from cocoa and $300 million from the...