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Nigeria’s public debt, buck passing and posterity burden
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The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News
Nigeria’s public debt has become a spectre that looms large over every economic conversation, to the extent that it was one of the most debated issues during the 2023 general elections.
For a country that spent over half of its public revenue on debt servicing, it is not surprising that this became an attention-grabbing issue.
And the speed of growth of the stock of public debt in the last administration has not made it less of a concern.
From about N12 trillion, the public debt stock ballooned to nearly N100 trillion.
Indeed, Nigeria’s public debt has become a spectre that looms large over every economic conversation.