 The federal government has risen, or rather has sated a rise to 4.2% of the gross domestic product in the, of course, a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmad, who said this at a public consultation on the draft of 2022-2024 medium-term fiscal framework and a medium-term expenditure framework and fiscal strategy paper on Thursday. Ahmad said the GDP projected in, rather projected close to 3% and had been adjusted downwards to close at 2.5%. The Minister further said the nominal GDP projected for 2022 was 184.38 trillion up from 168.6 trillion in 2021 and then to 201 trillion in 2023 and 222 trillion in 2024. Joseph said the inflation rate was expected to drop slightly to 13% in 2022 from 15% in 2021. She noted that the increase in inflation was due to the exchange rate. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.