The National Bureau of Statistics released some dismal numbers as the second quarter of the year draws to an end. With headline inflation increasing and unemployment rates rising, Nigeria’s economy is taking a proper bashing.
Nigeria’s minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun who had earlier claimed that Nigeria was technically not in a recession will now have to eat her words.
With Nigeria’s GDP showing a contraction for the second quarter in a row, we can now dispense with the technicalities and say it with our chest, Nigeria is in an economic recession.
Q2 2016 GDP in info graphics pic.twitter.com/C8Tu8E96rj
— Dr Yemi Kale (@sgyemikale) August 31, 2016
Nigeria’s GDP showed a contraction of -2.06% for Q2 2016 from -0.36% in Q1.