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Breaking: Nigeria’s economy contracts by -6% in Q2 2020

Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has contracted by six percent in the second quarter of 2020, a new report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown.
According to the report which was released on Monday, Oil GDP contracted by -6.63 percent from 5.06 percent in the first quarter and 5.15 percent in the second of 2019.
Non-oil GDP was also reported to have contracted by -6.05 percent from 1.55 percent in the first quarter of 2020 and 1.64 percent in the second quarter of 2019.
Adewale Nurudeen

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