Nigeria’s economy grew by 0.83% in 2017 according to recently-released figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). That is certainly better than 2016’s recession of -1.54% but set against our average population growth rate of 2.8-3.0%, it is no surprise that Nigerians are getting poore
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