Experts Call for Comprehensive Debate on Nigeria’s Fuel Subsidy and Cost-of-Living Crisis

Policy analysts argue that permanently subsidizing petrol is unsustainable and urge a strategic shift toward reducing national dependence on cheap fuel through improvements in transport, energy, and food production sectors.

27 Aug, 11:38 — 27 Aug, 11:38

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Fuel subsidy: Let’s debate the real solution to Nigeria’s cost-of-living crisis, By John Okiyi Kalu

Government does not have to keep petrol artificially cheap forever. It needs to make transport, electricity, food production and household incomes progressively less dependent on cheap petrol… That is the conversation I want to hear from serious presidential candidates in 2027. On 29 May, 2023, petrol was selling at roughly ₦195 per litre at the […] The post Fuel subsidy: Let’s debate the real solution to Nigeria’s cost-of-living crisis, By John Okiyi Kalu appeared first on Premium Times Nige...

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