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Jul 10, 2018 13 tweets 3 min read Read on X
I have a question for those of you who used the temporary high inflation in Egypt and the ongoing currency crisis in Argentina as examples of why IMF reforms, or market driven policies are bad for Nigeria.

Where do you think Egypt and Argentina would be now if they had oil?
Now, let me give you another example. Russia.

Russia has market-driven economic policies. They faced two stressors in 2015 - 2016: sharp drop in oil prices and international sanctions because of their annexation of Crimea.

Each one is enough to crush a country.
Russia went into a recession and rebounded sharply. Few countries can survive that and still hold a successful #WorldCup

Ordinary oil price drop and Nigeria is now home to the largest number of poor people in the world. Imagine if we were also hit with sanctions.
So I am here to tell you that if Egypt and Argentina had oil, like we do, we won’t even be seeing their brake lights. They would have been toasts of global investors.

I am not sorry to say this, but we are a bunch of very unserious people.
Ease of doing business and other stories, but Lagos Airport is the most expensive airport for airlines in the world.

What with our leaking roofs and carousels that are only fit for flyers in the 1950s. And air condition that work as the spirit leads.
And some knuckle-heads were boasting that Aunty Kemi is a better Finance Minister than NOI. May mediocrity never be your portion.

Right under Aunty Kemi’s nose, Customs decide what should be banned and what should not be banned. She has no say.
CBN too will come with some lists and Ministry of Agric too will be soon their own. All operating in silos. You try that nonsense with NOI and she would have dragged the hell out of you.
And you know what’s more painful? Once upon a time, we could all go to PPPRA website, bring out calculator and calculate how much subsidy Nigeria is paying at every point in time. Now, that information has turned to gold.

Take FOI to beg them to provide info, na voice mail.
Now nobody knows how much subsidy we pay. They now call it under-recovery. We are fighting corruption but there is zero transparency.

Oh, monies have been retrieved from soak away and people are dropping money at CBN. Oya show us the money, voice mail.
Meanwhile, the most corrupt administration in Nigeria showed workings. They came out and told us exactly how much subsidy Nigeria was paying and we all filed out to Ojota.

The cleanest Government came, raised fuel prices and we don’t know how much subsidy we are paying.
Oh. Forgive my manners. We don’t pay subsidy anymore.

So I am here to tell you that if you think we are doing well, we only have oil to thank. Otherwise, we would have been in the mould of Congo.
And lastly, I am here to imagine a Nigeria, flourishing like Egypt with the oil. Then use your imagination and stop selling yourself short and take your Government to task.

Stop accepting mediocrity as the norm. We are better than this. Selah.
Erratum: the last sentence should read, “Where do you think Egypt and Argentina would be now if they had oil, like we do?”

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GDP growth 1.5% for Q2 2018, a drop from 1.95% in Q1. This is not good. One would have thought that low inflation and relatively higher oil prices would have given us a push.

Meanwhile Oil GDP contracted by over 3%. This is what we are building our economy upon.
The funniest thing is that the sectors the Government have insisted on subsidizing by all means - industry and agric - both contracted.

Meanwhile the sector that has come under the heaviest regulatory pressure and messy business environment surged: Services sector.
When are we going to trash this nonsense that we must produce what we eat? Given our unusual environment - poor infrastructure - th services sector should be highly encouraged. But no.

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He told me with deep regret that if he had known he would have just bought treasury bills.

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If you are about to go for your NYSC or currently doing one, gather around. I will be back in the evening when my day job is done.
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This is an advice from someone who completed their own youth service exactly 9 years and 9 months ago. I will tweet from my personal experience.
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The next government that will take over after this one may find themselves in a very big economic mess if things continue as they are.

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End game: over-bloated recurrent expenses.
We suffered in the last few years as economic ground to a halt and cost rose. Attributions include higher fuel costs with poor electricity. Many thought economy was being reset. Wrong

Subsidy is back and badder. Pilgrimage and fertilizer subsidy all intact. What are the returns?
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