affairs, Prof Ode Ojowu has expressed satisfaction with the relatability of reports released by the National Bureau of Statistics to the performance of the economy in recent time.
Prof Ojowu insisted that the reports of NBS were a true reflection of the nature of Nigeria’s economy where, contrary to what many may expect, there was growth in GDP in the second quarter attributable to the resilient nature of the Nigerian economy. “The Nigerian economy is overly resilient, if not, the pressure on the economy is enough to explode it,” Ojowu said in an interview with cbdmediaedge. He said the degree of resilience was found in the contribution of agriculture which has attracted farmers to participate, as a survival strategy, in the farming of food crops, come rain, come sunshine. According to him, farmers are motivated by the need to survive by all means and to have an occupation.
However, he acknowledged that farmers are increasingly getting old and their children are not following them to the farm thereby putting the resilience of the economy on a litmus test. Ojowu also said the insecurity on the farms is a major concern that might affect the trajectory of the growth of agriculture in the future.
He commended NBS as an organisation that has improved in its data collection methodology, which was recently digitalised and thereby allowing raw data collection in the remotest part of the country.In the report released last week by NBS, Nigeria’s gross domestic product grew by 3.54 per cent year-on-year in real terms in the second quarter of 2022, an improvement compared to the 3.11 per cent growth recorded in the previous quarter.
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