Nigeria needs to do some fiscal housekeeping to overcome economic challenges, Adeosun says

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The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has indicated that next year shall be tough for Nigeria, and that the Federal Government will make extremely tough decisions.

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Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun

Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun

Adeosun gave this forecast while speaking at the opening of the 7th Annual Bankers Committee retreat yesterday in Lagos, noting that Nigeria was faced with some fairly significant micro-economic challenges that required some fiscal house-keeping.

Adenosine said: “It is going to be tough and we are going to have to make extremely tough decision. We have got the resilience and space to do that.”

Adeosun noted that the country fortunately has some head-room, as the debt to GDP ratio is at 12 percent and that gives some space to run a deficit budget with the specific objective of stimulating the economy.

“To do so, we need to do some fiscal housekeeping. We have to control the significant challenge we have around recurrent. If you look at recurrent at a percentage of our total budget with the just approved supplementary budget, it is about 90 percent. If we continue in that trajectory, every penny we borrow will go into recurrent,” she said.

The minister, who was enthusiastic that Nigeria can overcome the challenges however, warned that she was not attempting to white-wash everything or paint a rosy picture.

Babatunde Akinsola
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Babatunde Akinsola is aNaija247news' Southwest editor. He's based in Lagos and writes on the Yoruba Nation political issues, news and investigative reports

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