Mark Twain, the American writer and humourist, famously said: “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics.” This aphorism is truer in Nigeria than in virtually any other country. Put bluntly, one must be utterly gullible to believe official statistics in Nigeria. The unreliability of official data in Nigeria is known universally, with […] The post Dodgy data: The fallacies about Nigeria’s economy in 2025, by Olu Fasan appeared first on Vanguard News .