Average incomes in Nigeria contracted for the first time in 7 years in 2015, and may have stretched to negative 3 percent this year, pushing more households deeper into a poverty hole.
GDP per-capita income, which measures the average income earned per a person in a given area, fell 17.57 percent
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LOLADE AKINMURELE
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