Manufacturing declines as 2.27% GDP growth surpasses IMF projection Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The National Bureau of Statistics on Monday released the Gross Domestic Product report for the 2019 fiscal year with the economy growing by 2.27 per cent in 2019. The

The International Monetary Fund had projected that the nation’s economy would grow by 2.1% in 2019. But the 2.27 per cent growth rate recorded by the economy in 2019 surpassed the growth projection of 2.1 per cent by the IMF. The NBS report said that during the fourth quarter of 2019, Nigeria’s GDP grew by 2.