₦210 trillion: Nigeria’s numbers problem, By Mahmud Nasir Jafar
Add us on Google Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp What the Senate owes the public now is a reconciliation conducted on the record, following the documents wherever they lead, insulated from political pressure in either direction, and concluded with a finding ordinary citizens can read. The easiest way to rile Nigeria on the matter of public finance is to throw a number of endless zeroes at us and call it missing money.
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Add us on Google Join the Premium Times WhatsApp Community For Quick Access To News and Happenings Around You. Open in WhatsApp What the Senate owes the public now is a reconciliation conducted on the record, following the documents wherever they lead, insulated from political pressure in either direction, and concluded with a finding ordinary citizens can read. The analyst, Ike Onwuachu, made this point in his assessment of the hearing, arguing that the question should be settled by transparent reconciliation, rather than competing narratives, and that reading numbers off a balance sheet without understanding the historical transactions and operational structures behind them is an incomplete exercise.
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