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The Washington-based World Bank has projected Nigeria’s economy to grow 3.3 per cent this year. The leading development bank disclosed this in its recent Global Economic Prospect (GEP). Accordingly, the latest growth projection for Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, is about 0.4 percentage points higher than the 2.9 per cent it is expected to have closed last year. Meanwhile, the projection is slightly behind that of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which is to expand by 3.8 per cent, but far modestly above the estimated global average of 2.3 per cent. The latest projections for 2024 and 2025 are way…