Economics
Nigeria Economy Falls by the Most in a Decade
- GDP shrinks 6.1% in second quarter; median estimate was -4.05%
- Oil output was 1.81 million barrels a day, lowest since 2017
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Nigeria’s economy contracted the most in at least a decade in the second quarter as the crash in oil prices and the global fallout from Covid-19 hit output.