{"id":178222,"date":"2024-08-09T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cbn-and-the-road-to-one-trillion-dollars\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:53:00","slug":"nigeria-cbn-and-the-road-to-one-trillion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-cbn-and-the-road-to-one-trillion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: CBN and the Road to One Trillion Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The resilience of the Nigerian economy in the first half of 2024 is obvious. The economy recorded a growth rate of 2.98 per cent in the first quarter, up from 2.31 per cent during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\"><strong>As far as local and international experts are concerned, there is renewed optimism about Nigeria&#8217;s economic prospects despite ongoing challenges. The importance of continued cooperation from all stakeholders in overcoming these challenges and achieving robust and inclusive growth can therefore&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408090632.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The resilience of the Nigerian economy in the first half of 2024 is obvious. The economy recorded a growth rate of 2.98 per cent in the first quarter, up from 2.31 per cent during the same period last year. As far as local and international experts are concerned, there is renewed optimism about Nigeria&#8217;s economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6666,13172,257,4687,393,7414,254,8820],"class_list":["post-178222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cbn","tag-dollars","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trillion"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}