Add us on Google Nigeria’s worsening cost-of-living crisis has turned petrol subsidy into one of the most politically sensitive issues ahead of the 2027 presidential election. The debate was reignited by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who has promised to restore petrol subsidy if elected president […]

Dare said Atiku’s proposal to supply crude to domestic refiners below market value would reduce the revenue available to the three tiers of government.

According to him, the critical question Nigerians should ask is whether the trillions of naira previously committed to subsidising petrol could have been better deployed to…