CodedNG:
Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Kemi
Adeosun, has disclosed that
raising the country’s non-oil
revenue is her top priority.
“Forget about oil — we don’t
control the price of oil. That’s not where our problems lie,” Ms
Adeosun said according to
Financial Times. “Because of oil,
we’ve ignored everything else,”
she said. With a mindset of “we
have oil” Abuja had practically given up
collecting the right amounts from
other state bodies, she explained,
rattling off a list of federal
agencies she says had habitually
under-reported their revenues. She added that she had already
begun “drilling down into the
details” with ministry staff to
assess how much “parastatals” —
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