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[size=14pt]Nigerian govt borrowing billions to pay salaries – Okonjo-Iweala [/size]( Times)

In the face of dwindling oil revenues, Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said the Federal Government has borrowed about N473billion to pay salaries and fund the 2015 budget.

The Minister, who was speaking in Abuja on the details of the N4.493trillion appropriation already ed by the National Assembly, said the federal government had to raise its borrowing level from N570 billion to N882 billion to enable it meet its financial obligations to workers and contractors.

The minister blamed it on the decline in oil revenue in late 2014, which ed for 50 per cent cut in the total federally collectible revenue as well as the low revenue receipts from non-oil sources.

http://www.timesng.com/business/182543-nigerian-govt-borrowing-billions-to-pay-salaries-okonjo-iweala.html


[size=14pt]Nigeria borrows to pay salaries with cash crunch worsening.[/size] (Vanguard)

A cash shortage caused by low oil prices has forced Nigeria to borrow heavily through the early part of 2015, with the government struggling to pay public workers, officials said Wednesday. “We have serious challenges. Things have been tough since the beginning of the year and they are likely to remain so till the end of the year,” said Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Nigeria typically sets its benchmark crude price between 75 and 80 dollars, and is supposed to deposit excess revenue in a savings . But even when crude was selling above $100 last year, Jonathan’s istration struggled to build savings. Critics say the excess crude has been repeatedly raided by powerful political actors.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/nigeria-borrows-to-pay-salaries-with-cash-crunch-worsening/


Dear Nairalanders,

This is the economic team that Jonathanians wish was still in power or want us to bring back to save Nigeria.

I pulled out this from 2 different sources as Nairaland political gladiators see Times as APC sympathetic while Vanguard as PDP sympathetic. There shouldn't be any issue of biased reporting

Essense of this flash back;

There have been several attacks of the person of President Buhari and his Econmic team with Honourable Kemi Adeosun as the minister of finance and coordinating minster of the economy.

Oil price per barrel between Febuary and April 2015 hoovered between 54 to 57 dollars per barrel.

It is interesting to know that at this price, Jonathan and the mother of our economy were already borrowing to pay salaries and meet up obligations to contractors.

What would have been happening when oil went as low as 28 USD per barrel. Would Nigeria have been sold?

Naira was devalued to 197naira per dollar yet in didn't solve any problem as Nigeria still had to keep borrowing.
Will devaluing Niara solve anything now?

Fellow Nigerians,

Despite the lowest oil price rate of all times, President Buhari and Mrs Kemi Adeosun have never borrowed to pay salaries rather they have dished out bail out funds to states to pay salaries.

Despite the low oil prices, President Buhari was able defeat BokoHaram Technically. Please Note that alot of money is also being spent on this war, something the past government was struggling to achieve despite the huge resources allegedly spent on the war.

The present Economic situation have been expected even before this stration as evident in the several warnings issued by the past minister of Finance.
You can read her comments here even when oil was 74USD per barrel in case u missed the thread.
https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/2898459/what-okonjo-iweala-said-when-oil

In summary;

Buhari inherited a very big problem and have so far so good tried is best to navigate the ship Nigeria safefly.

I urge Jonathanians to take a chill pill, and give this stration some time as its first ever budget have just been ed.

God bless the Federal Repubic of Nigera

God bless Mr President

God bless the Honorable Minister of Finance

1 millions likes for President Buhari and Mrs Kemi Adeosun

Lalasticlala mynd44 pick up the call and let Nairalanders and Nigerians see the economic team Jonathanians want us to invite to save the economy

QUICK POLL

In this economic situation who will manage the Economy better

Like for Adeosun the MANAGER and share for Okonjor the BORROWER

Only cursed bastards whose seeds will know no peace will come back to tell me that the decision to chase out the world acclaimed I-Buffoon was a mistake. If after several years of obvious plenty this fool of a president and his so called economic team can start borrowing to pay salaries then its obvious to all sane minds that this team was just empty upstairs. even with much more serious challenges now coupled with lower oil price, buhari isnt borrowing to pay salaries yet bastard will claim they are yet to see any change. kiss my arse murrafuckers

One thing I know is that corruption and impunity is not as it used to be.

Everyone wants a miracle but very few are willing to pay the price.

The pain of the past is what has been ed on but reconstruction is on-going. Of course, we would expect to have a lot of saboteurs in this government.

One thing to note is that mopping up the mess would take some time before the good days come.

obi4eze:
One thing I know is that corruption and impunity is not as it used to be.
Everyone wants a miracle but very few are willing to pay the price.
The pain of the past is what has been ed on but reconstruction is on-going. Of course, we would expect to have a lot of saboteurs in this government.
One thing to note is that mopping up the mess would take some time before the good days come.

Obi, i kwuru nke ọma. I wish your brothers can emulate you.

Saboteurs are the corruption fighting back, but we shall overcome and there will be nothing to wail about again.

The Nigeria Enemies knows this, thats why their style of opposition now is Buahari is a brukutu kunu sipping ...blabla. Buhari is a Nepa Bill certificate holder....Buhari is bla bla.

Front loading is proactive finance. Little wonder FG paid salaries and overheads as at when due even contractors were better off then.
Today, construction section is dead while manufacturing is limping. Yet salaries are continually being delayed with no single culvert constructed. What an achievement by #teamBuhari. The budget ing excuse is about to be exposed.
Can't wait to see the imaginary 3trillion TSA money injected into the economy! Yeye govt of propaganda while hardship worsens!

The op once again tries to reinsert some brain cells into the dried coconut brains of wailing zombies let's watch and see whether his surgical process can restore some modicum of reasoning in their head. this act of borrowing was done when oil prices were far better than now by a minister some individuals adore we can only conclude that because of excess stealing govt bad to borrow so that some cursed thieves could live large while jogogoro could continue drinking to stupor.

tuniski:
Front loading is proactive finance. Little wonder FG paid salaries and overheads as at when due even contractors were better off then.
Today, construction section is dead while manufacturing is limping. Yet salaries are continually being delayed with no single culvert constructed. What an achievement by #teamBuhari. The budget ing excuse is about to be exposed.
Can't wait to see the imaginary 3trillion TSA money injected into the economy! Yeye govt of propaganda while hardship worsens!

Really...............Setraco handling east west road is still on site working. how come? let me guess, they are still using the money jonah-daft gave them a year ago
Rubbish

vedaxcool:
The op once again tries to reinsert some brain cells into the dried coconut brains of wailing zombies let's watch and see whether his surgical process can restore some modicum of reasoning in their head. this act of borrowing was done when oil prices were far better than now by a minister some individuals adore we can only conclude that because of excess stealing govt bad to borrow so that some cursed thieves could live large while jogogoro could continue drinking to stupor.

My brother look above u. They are here already, they have a name for the borrowing to pay salaries. It is called Front loading as it is proactive finance.

They would have preferred we kept on front loading till no space to load the front again....then we collapse.

Enemies of progress

tuniski:
[s]Front loading is proactive finance. Little wonder FG paid salaries and overheads as at when due even contractors were better off then.
Today, construction section is dead while manufacturing is limping. Yet salaries are continually being delayed with no single culvert constructed. What an achievement by #teamBuhari. The budget ing excuse is about to be exposed.
Can't wait to see the imaginary 3trillion TSA money injected into the economy! Yeye govt of propaganda while hardship worsens![/s]

Defending the indefensible.. pathetic wailer!

lalasticlala Mr fairness

koboko69:


My brother look above u. They are here already, they have a name for the borrowing to pay salaries. It is called Front loading as iit proactive finance.

They would have preferred we kept on front loading till no space to load the front again....then we collapse.

Enemies of progress

lolz

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tuniski:
Front loading is proactive finance. Little wonder FG paid salaries and overheads as at when due even contractors were better off then.
Today, construction section is dead while manufacturing is limping. Yet salaries are continually being delayed with no single culvert constructed. What an achievement by #teamBuhari. The budget ing excuse is about to be exposed.
Can't wait to see the imaginary 3trillion TSA money injected into the economy! Yeye govt of propaganda while hardship worsens!

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This is a disgraceful attempt at front loading. by the way have pdp loaded your front? buhahaha. Get the simple arguement Jogogoro led a govt of thieves.

koboko69:
[size=14pt]Nigerian govt borrowing billions to pay salaries – Okonjo-Iweala [/size]( Times)


http://www.timesng.com/business/182543-nigerian-govt-borrowing-billions-to-pay-salaries-okonjo-iweala.html


[size=14pt]Nigeria borrows to pay salaries with cash crunch worsening.[/size] (Vanguard)



Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/nigeria-borrows-to-pay-salaries-with-cash-crunch-worsening/


Dear Nairalanders,

This is the economic team that Jonathanians wish was still in power or want us to bring back to save Nigeria.

I pulled out this from 2 different sources as Nairaland political gladiators see Times as APC sympathetic while Vanguard as PDP sympathetic. There shouldn't be any issue of biased reporting

Essense of this flash back;

There have been several attacks of the person of President Buhari and his Econmic team with Honourable Kemi Adeosun as the minister of finance and coordinating minster of the economy.

Oil price per barrel between Febuary and April 2015 hoovered between 54 to 57 dollars per barrel.

It is interesting to know that at this price, Jonathan and the mother of our economy were already borrowing to pay salaries and meet up obligations to contractors.

What would have been happening when oil went as low as 28 USD per barrel. Would Nigeria have been sold?

Naira was devalued to 197naira per dollar yet in didn't solve any problem as Nigeria still had to keep borrowing.
Will devaluing Niara solve anything now?

Fellow Nigerians,

Despite the lowest oil price rate of all times, President Buhari and Mrs Kemi Adeosun have never borrowed to pay salaries rather they have dished out bail out funds to states to pay salaries.

Despite the low oil prices, President Buhari was able defeat BokoHaram Technically. Please Note that alot of money is also being spent on this war, something the past government was struggling to achieve despite the huge resources allegedly spent on the war.

The present Economic situation have been expected even before this stration as evident in the several warnings issued by the past minister of Finance.
You can read her comments here even when oil was 74USD per barrel in case u missed the thread.
https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/2898459/what-okonjo-iweala-said-when-oil

In summary;

Buhari inherited a very big problem and have so far so good tried is best to navigate the ship Nigeria safefly.

I urge Jonathanians to take a chill pill, and give this stration some time as its first ever budget have just been ed.

God bless the Federal Repubic of Nigera

God bless Mr President

God bless the Honorable Minister of Finance

1 millions likes for President Buhari and Mrs Kemi Adeosun

It is good but your president to stop shifting blames instead they should work more and talk less

Buhari remains a blessing to Nigeria.

Demdem:


Really...............Setraco handling east west road is still on site working. how come? let me guess, they are still using the money jonah-daft gave them a year ago
Rubbish

No, the current govt is operating secrecy and propaganda! Just waiting for the economy to have lubrication from TSA cash. Yeye govt the country looking famine!

op you have actually used koboko to flog the wailing wailers.They will avoid thus thread like ebola cos they dont want to hear the truth.

Everyone knows this reaiity but wailers chose to pretend as if they are not aware of PMB's achievement so far. All they display is misdirected hatred.

Chai..!!! this thread go sweet die..!!!!

Yes. God catch them.
This Borno governor claim that Buhari is the reason states can pay salary today. With oil selling at $108 borno got N4.6B of which after a near 80% reduction in income they are still getting N2.6 allocation. That's due to Buhari's prudence.

Most of the wailers on Nairaland are just IPOB kids who are averse to learning or reading...

They just come to look for robotic comments like "Bubu is a dullard" and donate their LIKES without contributing or learning anything...

IPOB Youths are a curse to this nation..

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tuniski:

No, the current govt is operating secrecy and propaganda! Just waiting for the economy to have lubrication from TSA cash. Yeye govt the country looking famine!

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Bunkum. u said construction is dead and i gave u a live example to disprove ur shameless lie. is this what u still come back with? cover ur face in shame. succks to be u.

Is this an attempt to distract from the biting fuel scarcity? Bad press has been biting hard of late hey?

zombies desperately looking for anything to divert people's anger from the current directionless Buhari APC-led istration, whilst...

wailers are basking in schadenfreude.

zombies v wailers... 2015 - 2019. The tale of an istration.

Nigeria's messiah is yet to come. One in the mould of a Washington, a Lincoln, a F Roosevelt. We hope and pray that day- should it ever come- hastens its steps.

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lalasticlala sef

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hucienda:
Is this an attempt to distract from the biting fuel scarcity? Bad press has been biting hard of late hey?

zombies desperately looking for anything to divert people's anger from the current directionless Buhari APC-led istration, whilst...

wailers are basking in schadenfreude.

zombies v wailers... 2015 - 2019. The tale of an istration.

Nigeria's messiah is yet to come. One in the mould of a Washington, a Lincoln, a F Roosevelt. We hope and pray that day- should it ever come- hastens its steps.

[/s]

Face the topic. You are free to create your thread about Fuel scarcity. This is about your hero borrowing to pay salaries.
EKPA!

hucienda:
[s]Is this an attempt to distract from the biting fuel scarcity? Bad press has been biting hard of late hey?

zombies desperately looking for anything to divert people's anger from the current directionless Buhari APC-led istration, whilst...

wailers are basking in schadenfreude.

zombies v wailers... 2015 - 2019. The tale of an istration.

Nigeria's messiah is yet to come. One in the mould of a Washington, a Lincoln, a F Roosevelt. We hope and pray that day- should it ever come- hastens its steps.[/s]

Rubbish!

IpoB fools..................see what ur shameless sister who u all worship said. why are u fools now saying President Buhari is the reason for ur present predicament?



[size=15pt]Okonjo-Iweala warns Nigeria: Tough times ahead[/size]

Nigeria’s former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said her successor will face a “difficult” year because of plunging oil revenues and the economy needs expert management to weather the storm.
“We have a serious situation with a cash crunch,” she said in an interview with Bloomberg in Cape Town, South Africa at the World Economic Forum on Africa.

“But fundamentally, the economy is strong. If we can get through the cash crunch, manage the way through, build on some of the assets we have, by next year, things will be better.”

Nigeria is struggling in the face of a 40 percent slump in crude prices in the second half of last year, which forced authorities to scale back budgeted spending and devalue the naira as foreign-currency reserves fell. The government relies on oil for about 70 percent of its income.

The next finance minister needs to focus on “a strong policy, the fiscal consolidation path that we have and looking toward diversification of revenue resources,” Okonjo-Iweala said.

President Muhammadu Buhari, who was sworn into office last week, has yet to appoint his cabinet. Okonjo-Iweala, a former managing director of the World Bank, was finance minister under Goodluck Jonathan from 2011.

“We are all waiting” for the new finance minister to be named, she said. “Nigeria is full of talented people so they will find someone.’

The economy is forecast by the International Monetary Fund to expand 4.8 percent this year, down from 6.3 percent in 2014. The naira has weakened 7.7 percent against the dollar this year and was trading at 198.73 on the interbank market as of 7:26 a.m. in Lagos, the commercial capital.

Okonjo-Iweala, 60, said she plans to take a break until August and will then consider her career options.

‘‘There are so many offers,’’ she said. ‘‘From international to the African Union and the private sector. But I want control over myself. I’m likely to do something that gives me freedom.’’

http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2015/06/okonjo-iweala-warns-nigeria-tough-times-ahead/

[size=18pt]Brace for tougher times ahead, Okonjo-Iweala tells Nigerians[/size]

Nigerians should brace for tougher economic times ahead, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said as crude oil prices slipped to a four year low on Wednesday.
New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) December WTI oil futures sold at $75.20 per barrel on Wednesday, down $1.98, from $74.96 per barrel the previous day, the lowest level for a most-active contract since September 2010.
Though the price of sweet crude, the blend of oil export from Nigeria, rose marginally at the close of trading on Wednesday to $76.96 per barrel, it has already crashed below the $79 per barrel benchmark approved in the 2014 Appropriation Act, concerns are mounting that tough times are indeed ahead.
At the end of the Federation s Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting for September, Federal, States and Local Governments were only able to go home with N603.5 billion allocation after they resolved to borrow about $2.76 billion from the Excess Crude Revenue to augment shortfall in revenue generated during the period.
The Federal Government had attributed the declining revenues to the fall in prices at the international oil market.
After drawing from the ECA, Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda, said the balance in the had dropped further from $4.1 billion to about $1.34 billion at the moment.
But Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said in Lagos on Tuesday that the economic indicators show there are tougher times ahead.

http://www.timesng.com/business/171145-brace-tougher-times-ahead-okonjo-iweala-tells-nigerians.html

The tough time was bound to come even if it was jonah-daft that was in charge. it will even be far much worse under him because the bastard had no full control of our resources and finance the way the General currently has. if he was borrowing to pay salaries when oil was above 65$ per barrel, i can only imagine what the otuooke drunkard would have done now that its 40$ or when it was 30$. I can never trust Jonah-daft with our finance. the same way he destroyed bayelsa finance as Governor was the same way he treated Nigeria. but i can trust the General with our money.
The worst is over. Afterwards, things are bound to improve very soon. sensible folks knows this. IpoB nonentities can cry off their lungs . They remain the inconsequential few.

Wailer are fast asleep today oh. NA THE EASTER CELEBRATE CAUSE AM?