Nigeria’s economic growth slowed in the first quarter of 2019 sparking further concerns about a looming poverty tsunami in Africa’s largest economy and most populous nation. The fall in GDP growth rate came after the oil sector, the country’s biggest foreign-exchange earner, contracted.
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