{"id":205769,"date":"2022-07-25T09:11:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T08:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=205769"},"modified":"2022-07-25T09:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T08:11:49","slug":"nigeria-is-not-broke-babatunde-fashola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/25\/nigeria-is-not-broke-babatunde-fashola\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria is not broke \u2013 Babatunde Fashola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, yesterday said that Nigeria was not broke.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor of Lagos state, disclosed this on a programme on Channels television.<\/p>\n<p>While fielding questions from Seun, programme anchor, the eloquent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/25\/nigerians-will-vote-apc-in-2023-we-have-done-well-fashola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minister<\/a> argued that being indebted and being able to service your debt in conventional finance is not being broke.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, last week warned that urgent action is needed to address the nation\u2019s revenue challenge and expenditure efficiency at both the national and sub-national levels.<\/p>\n<p>Report sighted by Journalists showed that gross oil and gas federation revenue for the first four months of the year was projected at N3.12 trillion but as at April 30, only N1.23 trillion was realised, representing a mere 39% performance.<\/p>\n<p>However, reacting to the indebtedness of Nigeria, the Honorable Minister opined: \u201cTo the best of my knowledge, Nigeria is not broke. Being indebted and being able to service your debt in conventional finance is not being broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn any event you have to understand that the business of lending itself is a profitable business. So if nobody contracted debts where will all the banks and other financial institutions be? Where will they throw all the people they employ?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo this is a matter of credit rating and credit reputation. It is this home economics mentality that I cannot take debts that led us to take 12billion dollars cash to go and payoff a debt we could have rescheduled, renegotiated when our infrastructure was dying. That mentality must leave our table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the big nations we want to compete with are contracting debts to build their infrastructure and stand in competition. As long as you can service your debts, you are good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can conveniently tell you that I am not the Nigeria\u2019s minister of Finance; my job is to spend the money not to earn it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am concerned and every responsible Nigerian should have his eyes on the debts and should be concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, yesterday said that Nigeria was not broke. The former governor of Lagos state, disclosed this on a programme on Channels television. While fielding questions from Seun, programme anchor, the eloquent minister argued that being indebted and being able to service your debt in conventional finance is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":48818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1091,12089,704,303],"class_list":["post-205769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-babatunde-fashola","tag-broke","tag-economy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria is not broke \u2013 Babatunde Fashola<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/07\/25\/nigeria-is-not-broke-babatunde-fashola\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria is not broke \u2013 Babatunde Fashola\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, yesterday said that Nigeria was not broke. 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