t growth rates, our domestic security challenges
emerging market growth rates, our domestic security challenges, declining oil prices, and the attendant diffi find culties in providing foreign exchange to meet market demands, the Nigerian economy grew by 2.84% in the third quarter of 2015. 9. We have, and will continue to implement strategies that will maintain macroeconomic stability and manage the oil price shocks we are experiencing. 10. Upon the inauguration of this administration on 29th May 2015, we engaged key stakeholders from various sectors of our economy and interfaced with the heads of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in order to understand the true state of our nat house ion. What we found prompted us to take certain strategic decisions. 11. On the economy, we injected new leadership at the helm of our revenue generating agencies including the Fed business eral Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and t...