Foreign Investors’ Interest In Nigeria Drops By 27.5% — NIPC Report

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A report by the Nigerian Investments Promotion Commission (NIPC) has revealed that the foreign investors’ interest in Nigeria declined by 27.5% in the first quarter of 2021.

According to the report, Nigeria received about $8.4bn investment announcement as of 4th March 2021. $5.46bn out of the total $8.4bn was pledged by foreign investors, while the remaining $2.08bn was pledged by domestic investors.

 

The report further indicated that the pledge made by foreign investors in Q1 2021 is 27.5 per cent lower than the $7.54bn foreign investment announcements recorded in the last quarter of 2020.

In the report which was titled ‘report of investment announcements in Nigeria (January – March 2021)’, the NIPC revealed that the major sources of foreign investments announcements in Q1 2021 came from Morocco ($1.40bn), the United Kingdom ($0.24bn) and the United States (US$0.08bn), while the total sum of other countries stood at 3.74bn, in the period under review.

The report also revealed that Bayelsa State ($3.60bn) received the largest amount of the investments announcements, with Delta State ($2.94bn) coming second while Akwa Ibom ($1.40bn) and Lagos($0.26b) came third and fourth respectively, in the period under review.

Further breakdown of the report showed that the Manufacturing sector got the highest announcement with, $5.08bn, while the construction sector came second with $2.90bn and electricity sector ($0.26bn), Agriculture ($0.11bn) came third and fourth respectively, in the first quarter of 2021.

Abiola Olawale
Abiola Olawale
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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