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Current Overall Risk Level

1.62 / 4.0 Low

Risk Trend

+0.3 points in last 30 days

Latest Risk Events

Date State Industry Risk Event Risk Type Severity
1/9/2025 Lagos Logistics & Transportation Medical emergency forces United Airlines flight back to Lagos Regulatory Permits Low
29/8/2025 Lagos Logistics & Transportation Air Peace operates the first direct Brazil–Nigeria flight Regulatory Permits Low
29/8/2025 Federal Capital Territory Agro-allied FMN commits to food security, creates 400,000 jobs Supply Chain Low
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Industry-Specific Risk Advisory

Logistics & Transportation

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • FG orders immediate repairs of damaged Shagamu-Benin bridge
  • Kogi road project stalls at 1% despite N1bn release – Umahi
  • Ogun police reaffirm commitment to maintaining peace, safety, warns against illegal transport unions
  • Residents cry for help as Naze, Nekede, lhiagwa to Obinze road near total collapse
  • Residents, commuters’ call out Gov Oborevwori, others over collapse of Udu road
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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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Finance & Banking

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Customer files criminal charges against bank over alleged forgery, fraudulent deduction
  • Data breach: NDPC issues 21-day ultimatum to banks, others
  • Pastel, FintechNGR collaborate to drive AI in compliance
  • Fidelity Bank empowers SMEs with Business Management Systems
  • Naira stability: 1,350 vehicles arrive at PTML in two days
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Real Estate & Construction

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Builders urge compliance with codes to avoid collapses
  • Bodo-Bonny road nears 80% completion – Julius Berger
  • Police arrest site engineer of collapsed building in Umuahia
  • Yobe approves N40bn for infrastructure, youth empowerment
  • FCMB backs TotalEnergies Staff Housing Cooperative Multipurpose Society Ltd flagship project (Louisville Phase 1) with $40m loan facility in Eko Atlantic
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Education

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Keystone Bank gives Akwa Ibom school facelift
  • Bauchi govt demotes school principal, senior teacher for gross misconduct
  • Kaduna teachers threaten strike over delayed implementation of N70,000 minimum wage
  • Kano: Two students killed after violent assault by schoolmates — Police
  • Lagos Free Zone boosts science education in schools
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Mining

Risk Level: Medium

Recent Developments:

  • 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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Manufacturing

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • 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
  • Auto manufacturers target 50% local parts with govt patronage
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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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Oil & Gas

Risk Level: Low

Recent Developments:

  • Suppliers oppose Dangote’s proposed direct fuel distribution scheme
  • Abia Lawmaker raises alarm over number of petrol stations around residential, market areas
  • Fuel price reduction: ‘Joy’s coming’ – Manufacturers
  • Fuel price reduction: ‘Joy’s coming’ – Manufacturers
  • Fuel distribution: Dangote refinery to incur N1tn as logistics cost
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Risk Analytics & Trends

Risk by Industry

Region Distribution

Regional Situation Report

North Central Region

Primary Concerns:

  • Federal Capital Territory - NAAPE raises alarm over poaching of pilots, engineers
  • Federal Capital Territory - Customer files criminal charges against bank over alleged forgery, fraudulent deduction
  • Federal Capital Territory - Data breach: NDPC issues 21-day ultimatum to banks, others
  • Federal Capital Territory - Nigerians nurses to commence 7-day warning strike over unmet demands
  • Federal Capital Territory - Insurance sector on edge as Reps probe 25 firms

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:

  • Jigawa - Flood destroys 995 rice farms in Jigawa
  • Jigawa - Higher fertilizer cost threatenening wet season farming – Jigawa farmers cry out
  • Kano - Kano: Two students killed after violent assault by schoolmates — Police
  • Kano - Kano Health Commissioner raises alarm over two million un-immunized children in Nigeria
  • Kano - NCAA grounds Rano Air aircraft after mid-flight engine failure

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:

  • Rivers - Caregivers lament neglect of patients as nurses at UPTH join nationwide strike
  • Rivers - Air Peace plane veers off runway in Port Harcourt
  • Delta - Delta women protest against destruction of crops by herdsmen
  • Delta - Residents, commuters’ call out Gov Oborevwori, others over collapse of Udu road
  • Bayelsa - Three sabotage attacks had targeted its pipelines in the oil-rich Bayelsa state

South West Region

Primary Concerns:

  • Lagos - Lagos doctors declare three-day warning strike
  • Lagos - Concerns as empty, rickety containers choke waterways
  • Lagos - Bird strike forces Air Peace flight to emergency return
  • Lagos - Lagos: NIMASA shuts two terminals over ISPS Code violations
  • Lagos - Protesters renew call for compensation over Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway demolitions

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