World Structural Adjustment Programme News Today

  Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has explained how several laws imposed a duty on the federal and state governments in Nigeria to regulate and control prices of fuel and goods in the country. Falana made the explanation in a statement released on Tuesday as part of his reaction to the rising costs of living in Nigeria and the impacts of the President Bola Tinubu-led government’s actions and policies on the country’s economy.

    Not a few defenders of neoliberalism have criticised the judgment of the Federal High Court in the case of Femi Falana SAN v Attorney-General of the Federation for directing the Federal Government to fix the prices of essential commodities in the country.