By: Economic & Finance Report
Nigeria reclaimed its numero uno status as the biggest economy in Africa again, last week. The IMF indicated that Nigeria’s GDP contracted to $415 billion, while #2 runner up South Africa had $280 billion and rounding off #3 was Egypt, (which data has not come out yet when writing this piece).
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) also indicated Nigeria should be out of their recession by early 2017. Nigeria has seen recession before; during 1982-1984 when current Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari was military head of state then, and in 1991 when Ibrahim Babangida was also head of state at the time. -SB