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After Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was recently rebased by measuring GDP estimates with a current base year price structure, Nigeria took over from South Africa as the largest economy in the African continent. This can be attributed to significant contribution by various sectors such as the real estate industry, which is estimated to be 8.01 percent and pegged at ...

Does the continent’s most-populous country deserve its new title? Recently, Nigeria became Africa’s largest economy by recalculation of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product). How did this happen, and what are the implications? Here is an article by URI FRIEDMAN about it. Please comment after reading, we would love to have your thoughts afterwards. credits: www.crudeoildaily.com Something strange happened in Nigeria on Sunday: The ...