Godwin Okafor
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!ABUJA, Oct 19 – Nigeria has revised down its forecast for 2017 economic growth to 1.5 percent from 2.19 percent, according to a document seen by our correspondent on Thursday.
Oil production, on which Nigeria relies for about two-thirds of government revenues, was at 1.9 million barrels per day for 2017, as of July, against an estimated 2.2 million barrels per day, said the document.
Titled “The 2018-2020 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper”, the document was prepared by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning and is dated August 2017.