Recession hurts Nigeria’s manufacturers
By CNBC Africa
19 September 2016 |
10:01 am
Nigeria's second quarter GDP figures revealed that the country's manufacturing sector declined by 3.4 per cent decline in real terms as the country slipped into recession.
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