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Current Overall Risk Level

1.54 / 4.0 Low

Risk Trend

+0.3 points in last 30 days

Latest Risk Events

Date State Industry Risk Event Risk Type Severity
1/7/2025 Benue Healthcare Doctors embark on indefinite strike at Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo Compliance Critical
1/7/2025 Lagos Logistics & Transportation At Apapa Port, Cost of Transporting Containers Drops from N1.2million to N350,000 Regulatory Permits Low
1/7/2025 Federal Capital Territory Logistics & Transportation Port congestion, container backlogs long resolved –NSC Chief Port Congestion Low
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Industry-Specific Risk Advisory

Agro-allied

Risk Level: Medium

Recent Developments:

  • Farmers protest land grabbing, destruction of farmlands in Ondo community
  • Nigeria's economy growing but high food prices a burden, World Bank says
  • 60,000 farmers to get free fertilisers, inputs in Enugu
  • Flood destroys 995 rice farms in Jigawa
  • FMN commits to food security, creates 400,000 jobs
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Logistics & Transportation

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Oyo residents appeal to Makinde to reconstruct Elebu road
  • Motorists trapped in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway roadworks
  • Oyo appeals for calm as protests over circular road persist
  • Residents desert homes over deplorable Ogun community road
  • Lawmaker begins Ogun community road repair after PUNCH report
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Real Estate & Construction

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Oyo begins demolition of structures on road setbacks
  • Residents protest cemetery construction in Lagos
  • Lagos engineer laments N500m property demolition
  • FCTA demolishes 11 duplexes in Dutse District
  • POP ceilings: From luxury décor to looming hazard
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Manufacturing

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • EEDC begins free prepaid metre rollout
  • Nigerian Bottling Company expands portfolio
  • NESG warns Nigeria risks job crisis without 27 million new formal jobs by 2030
  • SAP unveils next-gen AI to transform businesses
  • BUA Foods posts 101% profit growth, hits ₦276.1bn in H1 2025
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Travel & Hospitality

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Hotel staff strangled in Kwara, police hunt killer
  • Three arrested as Customs officer dies in Katsina hotel
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Oil & Gas

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Nigeria's daily oil output plunged 16% during brief Dangote refinery strike
  • Oil theft: Niger Delta ex-agitators demand probe, termination of security contract
  • High petrol prices persist despite cheaper crude, stronger naira
  • Customs intercepts smuggled N80.4m fuel bound for Benin Republic
  • NNPC links cooking-gas price hike to PENGASSAN strike
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Healthcare

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Nigeria Targets 106 Million Children for Vaccination by 2026
  • Invest in rural health workforce – UNICEF tells Kano govt
  • Caregivers lament neglect of patients as nurses at UPTH join nationwide strike
  • Nigerians nurses to commence 7-day warning strike over unmet demands
  • Lagos doctors declare three-day warning strike
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Education

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Protest: FUPRE students block East-West road over alleged hike in tuition
  • Varsity students to face drug tests, says education minister
  • I’ll sustain demand for university autonomy — ASUU President
  • Disbursement of the federal government student loan fund uncovered several unethical practices by some institutions of higher learning.
  • Civil disturbance in Abia, Nigeria, may disrupt local businesses and supply chains.
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Finance & Banking

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Naira rally strengthens as FX speculation declines
  • Ecobank Nigeria upgrades mobile app
  • JUST IN: Nigeria’s inflation drops for fifth consecutive time – NBS
  • Customer files criminal charges against bank over alleged forgery, fraudulent deduction
  • Data breach: NDPC issues 21-day ultimatum to banks, others
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Mining

Risk Level: Medium

Recent Developments:

  • 4,709 licences revoked to sanitise mining sector – FG
  • TICAD9: Nigeria, Japan explore investment opportunities in mining
  • Mining pit collapse claims two lives, injures three in Ebonyi
  • NSCDC Mining Marshals seal illegal lithium mine in Kebbi over alleged N1.43trn theft
  • How Illegal Mining is Poisoning Benue
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Risk Analytics & Trends

Risk by Industry

Region Distribution

Regional Situation Report

North Central Region

Primary Concerns:

  • Benue - Heightened tension over alleged killing of 259 cattle in Benue
  • Benue - Doctors embark on indefinite strike at Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo
  • Benue - Doctors embark on indefinite strike at Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo
  • Benue - Suspected herdsmen, military exhange gunfire near IDP camp in Benue
  • Benue - Suspected herdsmen, military exhange gunfire near IDP camp in Benue

North East Region

Primary Concerns:

  • Bauchi - Bauchi govt demotes school principal, senior teacher for gross misconduct
  • Taraba - Police foil kidnap attempt, rescue 17 passengers in Taraba
  • Borno - Terrorism in Borno, Nigeria, poses significant threat to local businesses and supply chains.

North West Region

Primary Concerns:

  • Kaduna - Police identify, arrest alleged receiver of vandalised railway materials in Kaduna
  • Kaduna - Kaduna teachers threaten strike over delayed implementation of N70,000 minimum wage
  • Kaduna - Kaduna NURTW urges FG to fast-track road construction to curb accidents
  • Kaduna - Kidnapping in Kaduna poses significant threat to employee safety and business continuity.
  • Katsina - Three arrested as Customs officer dies in Katsina hotel

South East Region

Primary Concerns:

  • Ebonyi - Mining pit collapse claims two lives, injures three in Ebonyi
  • Abia - Police arrest site engineer of collapsed building in Umuahia
  • Abia - Abia Lawmaker raises alarm over number of petrol stations around residential, market areas
  • Abia - Civil disturbance in Abia, Nigeria, may disrupt local businesses and supply chains.
  • Imo - Residents cry for help as Naze, Nekede, lhiagwa to Obinze road near total collapse

South South Region

Primary Concerns:

  • Delta - Protest: FUPRE students block East-West road over alleged hike in tuition
  • Delta - Delta women protest against destruction of crops by herdsmen
  • Delta - Residents, commuters’ call out Gov Oborevwori, others over collapse of Udu road
  • Rivers - Caregivers lament neglect of patients as nurses at UPTH join nationwide strike
  • Rivers - Air Peace plane veers off runway in Port Harcourt

South West Region

Primary Concerns:

  • Ondo - Farmers protest land grabbing, destruction of farmlands in Ondo community
  • Ondo - Assaults on illegal bunkering sites may disrupt oil production and transportation.
  • Oyo - Oyo residents appeal to Makinde to reconstruct Elebu road
  • Oyo - Oyo appeals for calm as protests over circular road persist
  • Oyo - Transportation accident involving petrol tankers poses significant business disruption and financial loss risks.

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