{"id":189551,"date":"2025-01-25T01:59:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T23:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-detty-december-remittances-in-nigeria-did-not-equal-4-percent-of-the-countrys-gdp-as-claimed-by-former-governor\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T01:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T23:59:41","slug":"nigeria-no-detty-december-remittances-in-nigeria-did-not-equal-4-percent-of-the-countrys-gdp-as-claimed-by-former-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-detty-december-remittances-in-nigeria-did-not-equal-4-percent-of-the-countrys-gdp-as-claimed-by-former-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: No, &#8216;Detty December&#8217; Remittances in Nigeria Did Not Equal 4 Percent of the Country&#8217;s GDP, As Claimed By Former Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>No, &#8216;Detty December&#8217; remittances in Nigeria did not equal 4% of the country&#8217;s GDP, as claimed by former governor<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The former governor based the claim on a Wikipedia entry, which quoted a 2021 news article.<\/li>\n<li>Official and complete stats for remittances and GDP in 2024 are not yet available, and experts say the governor&#8217;s claim is most likely an overestimation.<\/li>\n<li>Data for previous years shows that total remittances<em> per year<\/em>, not December alone, have been between 4% and 5% of Nigeria&#8217;s GDP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The former&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501240679.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>No, &#8216;Detty December&#8217; remittances in Nigeria did not equal 4% of the country&#8217;s GDP, as claimed by former governor The former governor based the claim on a Wikipedia entry, which quoted a 2021 news article. Official and complete stats for remittances and GDP in 2024 are not yet available, and experts say the governor&#8217;s claim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189552,"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":[258,256,16146,7216,6939,50472,4411,13289,4269,257,4687,393,6720,29657,254],"class_list":["post-189551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claimed","tag-countrys","tag-december","tag-detty","tag-equal","tag-gdp","tag-governor","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-percent","tag-remittances","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/189551","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=189551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}