Nigeria in 2016 witnessed its first recession in 25 years after the global oil prices, its economic mainstay, dipped in tandem with the country’s crude production plummet. The annual real GDP growth in Africa’s largest economy declined from 6.2% in 2014 to 2.7% and -1.5% in the following two years, respectively.
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