…As reform shocks fade …Growth pace still too slow to reduce poverty Nigeria’s economy is on track to deliver a real GDP growth of roughly 4.0 percent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2026, a figure that would represent the country’s most robust opening-quarter performance since the post-pandemic recovery began in 2021. This projection signals that the most agonising phase of the reform adjustment cycle is slowly beginning to fade. While official data from the National Bureau of Statistics remains several weeks
…As reform shocks fade …Growth pace still too slow to reduce poverty Nigeria’s economy is on track to deliver a real GDP growth of roughly 4.0 percent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2026, a figure that would represent the country’s most robust opening-quarter performance since the post-pandemic recovery began in 2021. This projection signals that the most agonising phase of the reform adjustment cycle is slowly beginning to fade. While official data from the National Bureau of Statistics remains several weeks