{"id":31759,"date":"2020-09-17T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31759"},"modified":"2020-09-17T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:59:25","slug":"nigerian-economy-performing-better-than-projected-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31759","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian economy performing better than projected \u2013Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Minister-of-Finance-Zainab-Ahmed.png\" alt=\"Minister-of-Finance-Zainab-Ahmed\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said the Nigerian economy fared better than analysts\u2019 projections for the second quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe presented a memo to council in respect of the second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report, earlier released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on the 24th of August\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe GDP report shows that the economy went into negative growth of -6.10% in the second quarter but that the aggregate performance for half year 2020 is -2.1%. This performance of -6.10% is a good performance in the sense that it is better than what we have projected second quarter performance to be at -7.2%,\u201d Mrs Ahmed told reporters on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She stated that the performance also bettered the projection of the Bretton Woods Institutions as well as those of the advanced countries of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cost of living in Africa\u2019s biggest economy has risen unhindered for 12 months in a row, pushing inflation rate to its 28-month peak at 13.22% in August,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/just-in-inflation-hits-28-month-high-rises-to-13-22\/\" target=\"_blank\">the statistics office said<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe US for example went into negative growth of 33% for the second quarter 2020 and 19% half year 2020. Similarly, the UK, Canada, Italy and several countries of the world all went into very significant negative growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo, Nigeria\u2019s economy has shown some level of resilience in this level of performance,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its second quarter GDP report, the NBS noted that 30 of the 46 sectors (or 65%) of the economy posted negative growth but Ahmed said some sectors still maintained an upbeat trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese sectors include agriculture as well as financial services and the ICT services. This is actually showing that even during the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripplesnigeria.com\/tag\/COVID-19\/\">COVID<\/a>&nbsp;era, there were still some sectors that stood firm and indeed were growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe inflation was also reported to be moving up gradually, capital importation did not dry up despite the lockdown and the difficulties all countries experienced. But this is reflected by the significant decline in capital importation into the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said the Nigerian economy fared better than analysts\u2019 projections for the second quarter of 2020. \u201cWe presented a memo to council in respect of the second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report, earlier released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on the 24th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian economy performing better than projected \u2013Finance Minister &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31759\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31759#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Economy\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=21\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Nigerian economy performing better than projected \u2013Finance Minister\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nigerian economy performing better than projected \u2013Finance Minister &raquo; WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31759","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=31759#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Economy","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=21"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Nigerian economy performing better than projected \u2013Finance Minister"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=21\" rel=\"category\">Economy<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said the Nigerian economy fared better than analysts\u2019 projections for the second quarter of 2020. \u201cWe presented a memo to council in respect of the second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report, earlier released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on the 24th&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31759"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}