Article(s) about Privatization

Report Highlights: Sugar production is expected to remain relatively flat at 70,000 tons, which signals limited progress of Nigeria’s backward integration plans for sugar production. Raw sugar imports are estimated to decline marginally by three percent, largely due to limited availability [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria’s sugar refining capacity, estimated at 2.1 million tons, exceeds the country’s current total demand of 1.45 million tons. The country’s sugar refineries depend almost exclusively on brown sugar from Brazil at five percent duty. This situation has [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria depends almost exclusively on sugar imports in the form of brown sugar, largely imported from Brazil (98 percent) despite privatization of all government -owned sugar resources. The Nigerian sugar industry has been reinvigorated by privatization; however, production [Read more]

Report Highlights: Nigeria continues to depend almost exclusively on sugar imports despite the completion of the privatization of all government-owned sugar estates. Rehabilitation and expansion of these estates are on going, albeit at a very slow pace and at present, only Savannah Sugar Company [Read more]