'Nigeria's spend on subsidy can build 20,000km of roads, 600,000 houses'

‘Nigeria’s spend on subsidy can build 20,000km of roads, 600,000 houses’

Extension of petrol subsidy will dent fresh investment – marketers

While petrol is sold at N165/litre in Nigeria, the same product goes for about 100 percent higher in neighbouring countries

Nigeria Spends N10 trillion on Petroleum subsidy in ten years, an amount capable enough to build 16 million boreholes, 1 million classrooms, 300,000 fully equipped primary healthcare centres, over 20,000 kilometres of roads, 27,000 megawatts of solar electricity, 600,000 houses. Tunji Oyebanji ch

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