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The Pertinency of Fuel Subsidy in Nigeria’s Economic Recessiondoi:10.11648/j.ijes.20170102.13FuelSubsidyEconomicRecessionTransportationandSoundPolicyThis paper emphatically identified fuel subsidy as a sound policy that will resuscitate Nigeria from the present recession. Nigeria's economy was officially ...
Concerns over subsidy payments earlier this year caused fuel shortages that grounded flights, led to long queues at petrol stations and even brought mobile phone companies and banks to a standstill. Traders and analysts say Nigeria cannot afford to keep the scheme going – particularly given the st...
KADUNA State's past governor Nasir El-Rufai has said that Nigeria's Federal Government is paying more fuel subsidy now that it had been before while speaking to reporters on April 15. The official indicated that the government had returned to subsidising fuel without the knowledge of the general...
This paper addresses the arguments for and against fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria as a political discourse in the Nigerian media. We examine the political discourse from the theoretical and methodological perspectives of discourse structure, linguistic function, and ideological bearing as provided by Cri...
The study focused on Nigeria as a significant oil producing country in Sub Saharan Africa and employs narrative method for its analysis. The study concludes that while fuel subsidy removal policy (in the short term) would have welfare implications, in the long run, the policy would bring about...
With daily consumption of roughly 40 million litres, that's 1.2 billion naira ($3.15 MM) per day, at a time when low oil prices have left Nigeria's budget 5.60 trillion naira in deficit. "The reality of it is that whether it's subsidy, (whatever) you want to call it... it's...
In this keynote address, I will give an overview of the fuel subsidy and palliatives proposed by the Federal Government, the criticism that has trailed it and what the Federal Government should do. But first, I will underscore the importance of democracy and the challenges facing Nigeria. ...
The Fuel Subsidy Conundrum (part 2)Chido Onumah
Nigeria's fuel subsidy bill is expected to be more than halved this year com- pared with last year, following a rise in regulated prices and as measures are brought in to curb fraud and waste. Government spending on gasoline sub- sidies from January to August this year was less than 550...