Still on GDP data and realities facing Nigerians, by Adekunle Adekoya

OUR government, especially the one in office now, is fond of reeling out data, particularly data from multilateral institutions and global rating agencies to justify their performance in office. As you may know, government officials have been throwing macro-economic data at us to  show that they they have been working in our interest. As if people eat data. The latest in this regard is data about re-basing the country’s Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. The re-basing has generated