Non-oil income outpaces oil first time since 1973

Despite the rise of non-oil income, the actual amount generated from this source remains too low to cover the government’s spending

Nigeria’s Federal Government earned more from non-oil sources than oil for most of last year, yet the country is far from weaning itself from a longstanding dependence on oil revenues that successive presidents since 1999 have promised and failed to achieve. The government earned the bulk of it

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