In just two years Nigeria has gone from being Africa’s biggest economy with growth of over 6% to facing its first recession in more than two decades. On this week’s episode of Africa Inc, Alishia Seckam is joined by Sven Richter from Drakens Capital, Dianna Games from the South Africa Nigeria Chamber of Commerce and Sola Adegbesan from Standard Bank to discuss whether, as the African Development Banks claims, Nigeria is too big to fail. READ THIS: African Development Bank comes to Nigeria’s aid The panel looks into how disturbances in the Delta region is impacting the country's oil output and how Nigeria plans to spend its way back to economic growth. READ THIS: Nigeria spends $2.4 billion to drag country out of recession Games says despite the country’s sluggish growth, Nigeria is still a powerhouse on the continent. “There is still a view that unless you have Nigeria as part of your Africa strategy, it’s not really a Africa strategy.” She says the major concern should be how long ...
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