Our Recession No Go Last Long  – Minister Of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed Don Yarn 

Lai Mohammed, wey bi the Minister of Information and Culture don yarn say that the government dey confident say with the intervention policies, the fiscal and monetary interventions wey dem don put in place, no go make the recession too te.

Im yarn dis tori for interview with NTA today November 25.

Make Una read wetin im yarn
“It is true we are in a recession. Recession comes when a country records two consecutive quarters of negative growths. But we must go beyond that to understand that despite that, our economy is still very well in circumstances.

The main reason why we have entered into this recession is the oil sector. The oil sector recorded -13.89% and that is the worst in 14 quarters. Of course, it is easy to understand why; with the pandemic, there is low demand for oil…but when you look at the non-oil sector which is about -2.51 % in Q3, it is far better than what it was in the Q2.

Overall, yes, we are in a recession and it is inevitable but while our Q2 result was -6.1%, South Africa was -50% and as we speak today, Finland, Hungary, Spain, Mexico, Russia, Romania, Belgium, Austria have all fallen into recession.

But we are very confident that with the intervention policies, with the fiscal and monetary interventions the government has put in place, the recession will be short-lived.

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