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Federal Government Tackles Bank Lending Crisis (opens the original)
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Aliko Dangote, president of the Dangote conglomerate, said recently that industrialisation cannot take place with lending rate at 30 per cent. That is the gospel truth. The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) recently complained that high lending rate was at the root of the high production cost experienced by its members. MAN and banks traded blames for the cause of inflation. MAN believes that high lending rates accelerates the cost of production and forces its members to hike the cost o
Factors behind Nigeria’s mounting trade surplus - Blueprint Newspapers Limited (opens the original)
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Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) show Nigeria’s trade surplus standing at N12.6 trillion in the second quarter of 2026. The NBS data showed that the volume of trade during the period under review rose to N44.4 trillion. That is a 19.14 per cent increase from the performance in the first quarter of the year. The interesting aspect of the surging trade volume and surplus is the fact that Nigeria’s export trade accounted for the record increase in the volume of trade. Nigeria’s exp
The scramble for social security protection - Blueprint Newspapers Limited (opens the original)
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Millions of Nigerians have battled poverty for decades with their hands practically tied to their back. The federal, state or local governments were not there to provide succour. In the developed economies of North America and Europe, those who have no jobs are socially protected by the government. A Nigerian from Rivers State who lives in The Netherlands narrated his experience when he lost his job in 2017. The Nigerian was working with an oil company when a sudden crash in crude oil prices for
Petrol subsidy: The CNG option - Blueprint Newspapers Limited (opens the original)
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Petrol subsidy was regarded by a cross section of Nigerians as an equitable means of income distribution in a country that had no social security system. Even as the World Bank argued vehemently that petrol subsidy benefited the rich more than the poor, Nigerians countered with claims that it kept down the cost of evacuating food items from Nigeria’s inaccessible rural communities where food is produced. It was also argued that it moderated public transportation system fares. The argument by the
Factors behind abysmal gas consumption - Blueprint Newspapers Limited (opens the original)
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Nigeria has a penchant for importing what it has in abundance and exporting what it lacks. That is the sinister development in the trade in cooking gas. The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited made a turnover of $149 million in its gas exports in 2025. Conversely, Nigeria imported cooking gas worth $374 million in 2025. The cooking gas was imported from the United States of America ($277 million), Equatorial Guinea ($74 million), Ghana, $9.23 million, Argentina ($7 million). With Dangot
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