Yemisi Izuora
Nigeria’s economy reportedly grew 1.87 per cent in the first three months of 2020 from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said on Monday.
The record indicated that the figure shrank from the previous quarter as oil prices and international trade fell due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It is the slowest quarterly growth rate in one-and-a-half years, and comes as Nigeria has still not recovered from a 2016 recession that sent more than 13 million people into unemployment.
The slowdown reflects “the earliest effects of the disruption” from the global outbreak, said NBS, and comes as the government expects the economy to contract this year as much as 8.9 per cent in a worst case scenario.
Nigeria’s crude production was 2.07 million barrels a day, the statistics office said, the country’s highest level in more than four years.
But a global oil price crash due to reduced demand from the pandemic threatens to offset those gains, with annual growth in the oil sector contracting 1.3 per cent from the previous quarter to 5.06 per cent, said Reuters.
The non-oil sector was also hit: growing by just 1.55 per cent which was down 0.72 per cent from the last three months of 2019, the statistics office said.
The World Bank expects the coming recession to be “much more pronounced” than in 2016 and potentially Nigeria’s worst financial crisis in four decades.
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