Nigeria’s foreign trade deficit widened to a record N1.94 trillion in 2021 as the cost of importing commodities exceeded the value of the country’s exports, official data released on Tuesday show. This is 986 percent wider than a deficit of N178.2 billion recorded in 2020 as Africa’s bigges
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