How Tinubu is Using Subsidy Gains to Fund Education, Health and Infrastructure
In the most audacious approach to governance ever, President Bola Tinubu on assumption of office removed the cancerous fuel subsidy that had become the major hinderance to the social and economic development of Nigeria. Three years on the Federal Government has been able to effectively deploy the gains of that removal to fund education, health, infrastructure and the basics of the nation. Kehinde Olaosebikan writes.
For years, my position has been clear: take the burden of education and health off the masses, and you would have solved over 50% of poverty in Nigeria.
Many parents today are hypertensive not because of genetics but because of fear. Fear of school fees. Fear of hospital bills. Fear of “what happens to my children.”
That is why the model of Chief Obafemi Awolowo remains the most productive blueprint for governance in a developing economy like ours.
