Nigeria may leapfrog South Africa as the continent’s biggest economy when the government statistics agency publishes revamped data this weekend. The National Bureau of Statistics is set to release gross domestic product figures based on 2010 production patterns in Africa’s most populous country, the first time Nigeria has overhauled the […]

* Nigeria set to rebase GDP on Sunday * Likely to overtake South Africa as continent’s top economy * Move seen as positive for investment in Nigeria * Won’t change poverty, infrastructure woes Nigeria will rebase its GDP on Sunday, the statistics office said, in a move that will boost […]

By Peter OBIORA InvestAdvocate Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Christine Lagarde, managing director (MD) of the international monetary fund (IMF) Thursday said the Tunisian economy is still fragile with growth insufficient to make a significant dent in unemployment. Lagarde said this when she met Mehdi Jomaa, Tunisian prime minister in Washington DC, ‘’ Reducing […]