Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, has floored Lagos State as Nigeria\u2019s top foreign investment destination in quarter one 2025.<\/p>\n
This comes as capital inflows into Nigeria surged by 67.12 percent to $5.6 billion in the first quarter of 2025 compared to $3.4 billion recorded in the same period of 2024.<\/p>\n
The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, disclosed this in its latest report titled \u2018Nigeria Capital Importation Q1 2025\u2019.<\/p>\n
According to NBS, the capital inflow surge reflects a 10.86 percent rise from the $5.1 billion reported in the fourth quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Q1 2025, total capital importation into Nigeria stood at US$5642.07 million, higher than the US$3376.01 million recorded in Q1 2024, indicating an increase of 67.12%. In comparison to the preceding quarter, capital importation increased by 10.86% from US$5089.16 million in Q4 2024,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n
The report indicated that portfolio investment ranked top with $5.2 billion, accounting for 92.25 percent, followed by other investment with $311.17 million, accounting for 5.52 percent.<\/p>\n
NBS noted that two Nigerian states, the Federal Capital Territory and Lagos, received the highest amount of capital importation in Q1 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of the five states that recorded capital importation during the quarter, Abuja (FCT) remained the top destination with US$3047.45 million, accounting for 54.11 percent of the total capital imported. Lagos State followed with US$2564.68 million (45.44 percent), and Ogun State with US$7.95 million (0.14 percent).<\/p>\n
\u201cOthers were Oyo and Kaduna States with US$7.81 million and 4.06 million, respectively,\u201d the NBS report stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, has floored Lagos State as Nigeria\u2019s top foreign investment destination in quarter one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[26272,84,1294,26273,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-46680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-abuja","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-lagos","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}