THE Presidency has said that prior to the confirmation by the National Bureau of Statistics that Nigeria was now officially in recession critical measures were already ongoing to get the country out of the prevailing economic decline. Buhari As a direct response to the fiscal crisis, it said the Federal Government and its agencies were now focusing on agriculture, solid minerals, taxation, infrastructure, industrialisation, plugging leakages, anti-corruption and reducing the cost of governance among others. A functional framework, it said, had been put in place at all levels of
