Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed
Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, on Monday, November 23, 2020, while speaking about the current recession in the country at the ongoing 26th Nigerian Economic Summit said that the country will exit recession by the first quarter of 2021.
The Summit was organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning.
Nigeria, on Saturday, November 21, 2020, entered its second recession in five years in the third quarter of this year as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell for the second consecutive quarter.
According to figures released by the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, NBS, cumulative Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the first nine months of 2020, therefore, stood at -2.48 percent just as it recorded a -6.10 percent in the second quarter.
Zainab Ahmed said the COVID-19-induced recession followed the pattern across the world where many countries had entered an economic recession.
“Nigeria is not alone in this, but I will say that Nigeria has outperformed all of these economies in terms of the record of a negative growth,” Ahmed said.
Also at the Economic Summit, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo made the emphasis that the government is committed to working in synergy with the private sector to foster equitable growth and underpin national development.
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