GDP contracts again but Nigeria inches closer out of recession
The Nigerian economy remains in its worst recession in 29 years!
The National Bureau Statistics confirmed this on Tuesday, as it released the gross domestic product (GDP) report for the first quarter of 2017, which showed that the economy contracted by 0.52 percent year-on-year.
In August 2016, NBS called Nigeria’s first recession since the return of democracy in 1999, stating that the economy shrank by 2.06 percent in the second quarter of 2016 to hit its lowest point in nearly three decades.
According to World Bank data, the last time Nigeria had this magnitude of economic decline was under the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida, when the economy recorded consecutive decline of 0.51 percent and 0.82 percent in first and second quarters of 1987.
Posted by Juliet Ekwebelam (TheCable)
