Nigeria earned N2.512 trillion from the export of petroleum products in three months, between April and June 2015, according to data released yesterday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The NBS, in its Foreign Trade Statistics for the Second Quarter of 2015, also stated that Nigeria recorded total merchandise trade of N4.372 trillion and a trade surplus of N1.4 trillion in the month under review.
The amount the country earned from petroleum products sale in the second quarter of 2015 is 56.8 per cent of the country’s N4.49 trillion 2015 budget.