The Federal Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed has dropped a hint of how Nigeria will have to cope if the deadly coronavirus pandemic goes beyond six months.

She indicated that the country will go into recession if the coronavirus pandemic goes beyond six months.

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She made this known when she appeared on Channels TV saying;

“We are hopeful that this pandemic will be limited in time. If it is an average of three months, we should be able to close the year with positive growth. But if it goes longer than that – six months, one year – we will go into recession.”