Nigeria is a mono product frontier economy where crude oil accounts for 80 percent of foreign exchange earnings.
But for several decades, long before it gained independence in 1960 and discovered oil in commercial quantities, agriculture was the major revenue and foreign exchange earner for the
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Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi
Josephine Okojie-Okeiyi is a journalist with over five years’ reporting experience. She writes on industry, agriculture, commodities, climate change, and environmental issues.
She is fellow of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Bloomberg Media Initiative for Africa.
