There was one question in Zacch Adedeji’s Channels Television interview on Sunday, August 9, that deserves to survive the noise around the interview.
“Anybody who says he is coming,” the executive chairman of the Nigerian Revenue Service said, “just ask them, ‘What will you do differently?’ It is not just saying buffer. Buffer as what?”
It was an arresting question. Perhaps, it is more useful to turn it towards the government itself.
What can the Tinubu administration do differently now?
Some of the most consequential economic reforms of the past three years have already happened. The petrol subsidy was removed. The foreign exchange market has been substantially changed, tax administration has undergone a major overhaul, and domestic refining has expanded. States are also beginning to take charge of regulating their electricity markets.
