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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Nexus in Nigeria: A Time-Series Analysis

This study examines the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Nigeria over the period spanning 1990 to 2022. It specifically investigates the roles of electricity consumption and natural gas consumption within an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) framework. The study employs annual time-series data sourced from the World Development Indicators. Unit root tests reveal a mixture order of integration, of I(0) and I(1) among the variables, justifying the application of the ARDL bounds testing approach. The findings reveal the existence of a long-term relationship among…