Nigeria's Q1 GDP numbers show poverty still on the rise

Nigeria’s Q1 GDP numbers show poverty still on the rise

Nigeria’s Q1 GPD numbers show poverty still on the rise

Oil GDP contracted by 2.21 per cent in Q1 compared to a contraction of 19.76 per cent in Q4 2020

There were no surprises in the latest GDP numbers for Nigeria published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Sunday. Africa's largest economy expanded at a tepid 0.51 percent in the first quarter of 2021, a rate too slow to reduce rising poverty or address the country's record unemployme

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