How Nigeria’s broken logistics system is quietly taxing every business

    Emmanuel C. Macaulay | Insights | Dec 23, 2025    
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Nigeria’s economy does not only struggle because of inflation or exchange-rate volatility. It also struggles because moving goods from one point to another is unnecessarily hard, expensive, and unreliable. Poor roads, weak warehousing, and broken cold-chain systems quietly add costs to everything Nigerians buy and sell. This hidden burden functions like a competitive tax on every business — one that no invoice shows, but everyone pays.

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