Morocco rose to the 4th place among African countries that export goods to Nigeria in the first quarter of 2026 with exports amounting to nearly €43 million, according to official Nigerian data.
Morocco exported $49.5 million worth of goods to Nigeria during the first three months of 2026, representing 10.48% of Nigeria’s imports from the African continent, according to statistics published by Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The kingdom thus ranks behind South Africa, Angola, and Egypt, but ahead of Eswatini, among the West African giant’s main African partners.
South Africa remains in first place with $112 million in exports to
Nigeria, representing 23.71% of the country’s African purchases. Angola follows with $105 million and a market share of 22.21%, while Egypt reaches $50.5 million.
Morocco is less than $1 million behind its North African neighbor, confirming its position among the main African suppliers to the Nigerian market.
According to the NBS, Nigeria’s top five African partners accounted for $341.5 million in exports, representing over 72% of the country’s African imports.
This concentration underscores the limited influence of a small number of economies in intra-African trade with the continent’s most populous nation.
Nigerian imports from Africa reached $472.5 million, representing only 4.81% of the country’s total external purchases. Moroccan products thus represented nearly 0.5% of Nigeria’s total imports, a market largely dominated by Asian suppliers.
Globally, Nigerian imports amounted to $9.83 billion. Asia supplied over half of the country’s imports with $5.45 billion, followed by the Americas with $2.34 billion and Europe with $1.51 billion. China remains by far Nigeria’s leading supplier with $3.68 billion in export, followed by the United States with $2.02 billion.
Nigerian statistics also show that African imports are dominated by energy products and agricultural inputs. Crude oil alone accounts for 22% of Nigeria’s African imports, ahead of ammonium phosphate, freight vehicles, raw hides and palm oil.
However, the NBS report does not specify the national origin of these products, making it impossible to directly attribute ammonium phosphate imports to Morocco despite the size of its phosphate industry.
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