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Current Overall Risk Level

1.56 / 4.0 Low

Risk Trend

+0.3 points in last 30 days

Latest Risk Events

Date State Industry Risk Event Risk Type Severity
17/10/2025 Federal Capital Territory Oil & Gas High petrol prices persist despite cheaper crude, stronger naira Compliance Low
17/10/2025 Federal Capital Territory Manufacturing SAP unveils next-gen AI to transform businesses Security Low
16/10/2025 Zamfara Logistics & Transportation Bandits kill five policemen, three guards in Zamfara Insecurity High
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Industry-Specific Risk Advisory

Oil & Gas

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • 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
  • Suppliers oppose Dangote’s proposed direct fuel distribution scheme
  • Abia Lawmaker raises alarm over number of petrol stations around residential, market areas
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Real Estate & Construction

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Lagos estate seeks govt’s intervention over deplorable roads
  • Investigation ongoing over 17-year-old’s purchase of 14,000 hectares of land – Gov Okpebholo
  • Lekki NBM seeks govt intervention in flooding crisis
  • Inadequate data threatening real estate growth – AFRES
  • Lagos reduces minimum estate land size to 5,000sqm
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Logistics & Transportation

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Lagos estate seeks govt’s intervention over deplorable roads
  • Commuters stranded as Lagos bridge closure grounds traffic
  • Police identify, arrest alleged receiver of vandalised railway materials in Kaduna
  • Bandits kill five policemen, three guards in Zamfara
  • Lagos govt issues traffic advisory ahead of Adeniji Adele-CMS road repairs
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Manufacturing

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • SAP unveils next-gen AI to transform businesses
  • BUA Foods posts 101% profit growth, hits ₦276.1bn in H1 2025
  • Kayode Akinmade: As the world’s largest garment factory berths in Ogun
  • Golden Penny commits to quality nutrition
  • Cable industry sees growth with NOGICD Act implementation
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Travel & Hospitality

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Three arrested as Customs officer dies in Katsina hotel
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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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Agro-allied

Risk Level: Medium

Recent Developments:

  • 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
  • Sokoto targets food security with N5.3bn fertiliser intervention
  • Group plants trees in Darazo to fight climate change, desertification
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Healthcare

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • 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
  • Ekiti NMA rejects Nigerian govt’s circular on review of allowances.
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Risk Analytics & Trends

Risk by Industry

Region Distribution

Regional Situation Report

North Central Region

Primary Concerns:

  • Federal Capital Territory - High petrol prices persist despite cheaper crude, stronger naira
  • Federal Capital Territory - Foreign airlines boycott regulator over ticketing outlets
  • Federal Capital Territory - POP ceilings: From luxury décor to looming hazard
  • Federal Capital Territory - NNPC links cooking-gas price hike to PENGASSAN strike
  • Federal Capital Territory - Air Peace denies slashing fares by 30%

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:

  • Lagos - Lagos estate seeks govt’s intervention over deplorable roads
  • Lagos - Commuters stranded as Lagos bridge closure grounds traffic
  • Lagos - Customs intercepts smuggled N80.4m fuel bound for Benin Republic
  • Lagos - Lekki NBM seeks govt intervention in flooding crisis
  • Lagos - Inadequate data threatening real estate growth – AFRES

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