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| 2016 Budget: Old order versus 'change' regime | | Though it has been approved by the National Assembly, three months after it was presented, the 2016 Budget estimates can only come into effect only when assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari. But looking at the unfolding events, this appears to be a mirage. Yet, Nigerians are facing what could be called a grave economic situation. Why the delay in the presidential assent to the Appropriation Bill? What has gone wrong? This piece tries to find answers. The post 2016 Budget: Old order versus 'change' regime appeared first on Vanguard News. |
| Leveraging Legislation For Economic Survival | | The present economic downturn occasioned by dwindling oil prices in the international market, has not only led to frantic calls for economic diversification, it has also opened our eyes to our deeply flawed laws currently inhibiting business competitiveness and obstacles on the way of investors - foreign and local - who genuinely want to invest in the country. The concomitant negative effect of these deeply flawed and obsolete laws over the years had seen the whittling of businesses in Nigeria at a geometric rate and the permanent lockdown on long term investments in our potentially huge non-oil sector. Therefore, it has become imperative to remove the anti-business obstacles if the urgent quest to navigate the economy away from hitting the rocks due largely to over dependence on revenue from crude oil exports is to be achieved. The post Leveraging Legislation For Economic Survival appeared first on Vanguard News. |
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