Depriving Federation Account over Fuel Subsidy Payment
Economy This past week, managers of the economy were rattled to their core as their worst fears came to pass. Over 44 per cent of revenue will not be paid into the federation account between April and June. This is because the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation will be using over N111 billion to settle the fuel subsidy payment. No one needed a soothsayer to tell the government that things were bound to turn out this way, sometime. But this could have been prevented. The question is: how can Nigeria exit this fuel subsidy abyss? Chris Paul reports Considering the content of the correspond...