It said the economy grew at its fastest pace since 2016, both on quarter-on-quarter basis and the resultant year-on-year basis. In an interview with The Guardian in Abuja, he said: “As far as I am concerned the just-released GDP growth figure is simply a political expediency GDP growth. “Even the oil sector that is supposed to be growing the economy, it is only witnessing sluggish growth. Since we are not yet in the harvest reason, it shouldn’t have been the agricultural sector growing the economy. The non-oil sector grew two per cent in 2018, more than the oil sector, which rose 1.14 per cent, as oil production stood at 1.91 million barrels per day in the fourth quarter.

Source: The Guardian February 13, 2019 04:30 UTC