Nigeria, July 22 -- The Information and Communications sector contributed 10.29 per cent to the total nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2025, a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday.

The bureau said this figure is higher than the rate of 9.25 per cent recorded in the same quarter of 2024 and higher than the 8.55 per cent it contributed in the preceding quarter.

According to the statistics office, the sector in the first quarter of 2025 recorded a growth rate of 7.40 per cent in real terms, year-on-year.

From the rate recorded in the corresponding period of 2024, it said there was an increase of 3.36 percentage points.

On a quarter-on-quarter basis, the sector exhibited a real growt...