BusinessDay’s checks show that the increase in export is also driven by the desire to earn dollars at a time when the exchange rate of naira to a dollar is extremely high.
Demand for staple foods such as yams, palm oil, vegetables, garri (cassava flour), dried fish, local food seasonings (iru/ogiri), among other items, in Europe, America and other parts of the world has seen exports by air rise 53 percent in the last 10 months.
Before now, Nigerians in the diaspora
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