Spread the wordOne of Nigeria’s notable policy groups, the Independent Media and Policy Initiative (IMPI), has said that the new economic model deployed by the President Bola Tinubu administration is bound to drive the country’s GDP higher in 2026 and beyond. It said: “The Nigerian economy under the current administration has engendered a paradigm shift from perennial dependency on crude oil earnings to policy-driven economic facilitation. Seven months after that questionable projection by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), we have seen a volte-face. In an epiphany-like realisation, the IMF now speaks of a resurgent Nigerian economy as reflected in the global multilateral institution’s revised Nigerian economic outlook to a projected 4.4 per cent economic growth for 2026. “Beyond the IMF’s new GDP projection, we have observed a consensus around a higher than 4 per cent economic growth performance expectation of the Nigerian economy by virtually all known individual and public economic commentators.