Nigeria's economy
has slid into recession after negative growth in the first two quarters
of the year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday.
Nigeria, Africa's
top economy, has been battered by low oil prices hammering government
revenues, weakening the national currency and driving up inflation to an
11-year high.
"In the second
quarter of 2016, the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined by
-2.06 percent (year-on-year) in real terms," the NBS said.
"This was lower by
1.70 percentage points from the growth rate of 0.36 percent recorded in
the preceding quarter, and also lower by 4.41 percentage points from the
growth rate of 2.35 percent recorded in the corresponding quarter of
2015," it said.
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