Economic Intelligence | Nigeria | June 2026
Nigeria Macroeconomic Review: H2
Inflation composition, FX stability and the transmission of monetary policy into real economic activity.
Executive Summary
Headline disinflation masks divergent category behaviour. Food inflation remains structurally driven by logistics and input costs rather than demand.
Key Findings
63%
of inflation attributable to supply-side factors
Limiting the effectiveness of rate-led tightening.
9 mths
median policy transmission lag to lending rates
Longer than the standard assumption used in most models.
1.8%
estimated real credit growth to the private sector
Well below the level required to support output targets.
Supply-side inflation and policy limits
Where price pressure originates in logistics, energy and imported inputs, demand-side tightening imposes output cost without proportionate disinflation.
Inflation contribution by driver
Spaak decomposition, H1 2026.
Credit is the constraint
Private-sector credit growth remains negative in real terms. Investment plans in our corporate panel are being sequenced around internal cash generation rather than external finance.
“Limiting the effectiveness of rate-led tightening.”
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