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Bribery, Corruption Are Major Disablers Of Business Environment In Nigeria – Moghalu Claims
Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Kingsley Moghalu, has revealed that aside from poor electricity, major disablers of the Nigerian business environment are bribery and corruption.
In a tweet on his official X handle, Moghalu claimed that bribery had eaten deep into imports of products and customs border clearance in Nigeria.
“After low electricity, bribery and corruption are the most important disablers of the business environment in Nigeria. Importing goods, crossing customs borders, even internal movement are nightmares. For our economy to thrive, this must change. Change must start from the top,” a tweet by Moghalu read.
Naija News recalls that American multinational consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble (P&G) has announced that it is stopping manufacturing activities in Nigeria.
The company lamented that it is becoming increasingly difficult to do business in Nigeria due to issues with Dollar to Naira exchange values and problems with the macro-economic environment.
The recent removal of the fuel subsidy has exacerbated the challenges of operating in the country, making it increasingly difficult for multinational corporations to thrive.
Apart from P&G, other firms that have announced their exit from the Nigerian market include Bolt Food, Unilever, GlaxoSmithKline, Equnior, and Sanofi-Aventi Nigeria.
BUSINESS
Naira drops to N1,089 against US dollar at official forex market
The Naira on Tuesday depreciated to N1,089.51 against the US dollar at the official foreign exchange market.
Data from FMDQ showed that the Naira dropped to N1,089.51 per US dollar compared to N856.57, which was quoted at the end of business on Monday.
The figure represents N220.38 depreciation in the local currency compared to the N856.57 per dollar on Monday.
The development comes after the country’s currency dropped after three days of successive gains in the new year.
Similarly, the Naira dropped to N1,245 per US dollar from N1,240, which it traded on Monday at the parallel market.
The depreciation comes despite the Nigerian federal government receiving a $2.25 billion foreign exchange support loan from the African Import-Export Bank over a week ago.
BUSINESS
Nigeria’s economy to grow at 3.3 per cent in 2024 – World Bank
The Washington-based World Bank has projected Nigeria’s economy to grow 3.3 per cent this year.
The leading development bank disclosed this in its recent Global Economic Prospect (GEP).
Accordingly, the latest growth projection for Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, is about 0.4 percentage points higher than the 2.9 per cent it is expected to have closed last year.
Meanwhile, the projection is slightly behind that of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which is to expand by 3.8 per cent, but far modestly above the estimated global average of 2.3 per cent.
The latest projections for 2024 and 2025 are way above June forecasts, which were three and 3.1 per cent, respectively, re-validating the global bank’s rising confidence in the prospect of the economy since downstream oil and foreign exchange reforms that started the mid-last year.
According to the report, Nigeria’s inflation will “gradually ease as the effects of last year’s exchange rate reforms and removal of fuel subsidies fade”, with the structural reforms expected to boost fiscal revenue.
“Growth in SSA is expected to accelerate to 3.8 per cent in 2024 and further to 4.1 per cent in 2025 as inflationary pressures fade and financial conditions ease.
“The projections for regional growth in 2024 and 2025 have changed little from June forecasts, but these aggregates mask a mix of upgrades and downgrades at the country level.
“While growth in the largest economies in SSA is expected to lag the rest of the region, non-resource-rich economies are forecasted to maintain a growth rate above the regional average.
“Excluding the three largest SSA economies, growth in the region is expected to accelerate from 3.9 per cent in 2023 to 5 per cent in 2024 and a further 5.3 per cent in 2025,” the report said about Africa.
WORLD WIDE GIST reports that on the first day of this year, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the N28.7 trillion 2024 appropriation bill into law with a 3.76 per cent projected economic growth rate.
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