Article(s) about Growth

Report Highlights: Nigeria's agricultural development is constrained by the lack of access to credit for the predominantly smallholder farmers. Efforts by successive governments to address the problem have been largely unsuccessful. Commercial banks in the country perceive agricultural finance [Read more]

Report Highlights: Average wine consumption per capita jumped from 0.1 liters to more than 0.4 liters within 2004 and 2010. Still wine (red and white) category led the market accounting for a share of more than 80 percent. Local wine processing is underdeveloped and high-cost. Nigeria's large [Read more]

Report Highlights: Total food and agricultural imports are estimated to reach $4.0 billion by end of 2011 from about $3.7 billion in 2010. Wheat from the U.S. accounts for more than 20% of Nigeria's total food and agricultural total imports. Exports of other U.S. agricultural products such as [Read more]

Protocol: 1. I am very delighted to be invited to present a key-note address at this important forum. I wish to commend the organizers, the Canadian High Commission, the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and the Royal Bank of Canada for gathering top policy makers and operators in the [Read more]

Being the full text of a Public Lecture delivered by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria) at the Convocation Square, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, December 10, 2010 Protocol 1. I am very delighted to be invited to present a key-note address at this [Read more]

Report Highlights: Imported frozen fish (especially mackerel, herring and croaker) accounted for more than 800,000 tons (valued at $900 million) in 2009. Depending on fish availability, imports are expected to exceed one million tons by the end of 2010. The combination of low domestic production, [Read more]

The availability of reliable Electric Power to the homes and businesses of our citizens has been one item in our national life that we have approached with so much hope and yet experienced so much frustration over the past decades. Various regimes, in the distant past, paid little attention to the [Read more]