Containing violence is costly, and for Nigeria, it has come at a bill of $1.34 trillion within 13 years - from 2007 to 2019. BusinessDay analysis of data from the 2021 Economic Value of Peace report by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) shows that cost of violence in Nigeria - calculated as
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