Tag: Optimism
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Nigeria@61: Ex-President Jonathan urges optimism
Former president Goodluck Jonathan has called on Nigerians to be optimistic about the future of the country, in spite of the challenges currently being faced. Jonathan made the appeal in his goodwill message issued on Thursday in Abuja to Nigerians on the occasion of the nation’s 61st Independence anniversary. He said that the nation held…
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Should the 2017 0.8% GDP growth rate induce optimism? By Henry Boyo
By Henry Boyo The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), reported in March this year, that Nigeria’s annual Gross Domestic output had grown by 0.82 percent by December 2017; this marginal growth rate has nonetheless, been commended generally, as a welcome reversal from the negative -1.58 percent contraction which was recorded by December 2016. Notably, however,…