{"id":127189,"date":"2024-08-07T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/returning-petrol-subsidyll-worsen-poverty-in-nigeria-noa"},"modified":"2024-08-07T13:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T12:25:22","slug":"returning-petrol-subsidyll-worsen-poverty-in-nigeria-noa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/returning-petrol-subsidyll-worsen-poverty-in-nigeria-noa","title":{"rendered":"Returning petrol subsidy\u2019ll worsen poverty in Nigeria \u2013 NOA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Orientation Agency, NOA, says poverty will worsen if petrol subsidy is returned, as demanded by #EndBadGovernance protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of NOA, Lanre Issa-Onilu, made this statement on Wednesday, urging Nigerians to map out survival strategies amid the economic fallout of the removal of petrol subsidy by the President Bola Tinubu administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who is making a demand that subsidy removal should be brought back is making an emotional demand, not an economic demand, because you have to also prove that if it is brought back, it will solve the issue of poverty; it will not, it will aggravate it,\u201d Issa-Onilu said on Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily breakfast show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, what we should be doing is: How do we survive despite the removal?\u2019 We need to promote all the efforts of this government to ensure that we survive without that subsidy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Issa-Onilu, a former spokesman for the President\u2019s ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, also admitted the trust deficit between leaders and followers in the country due to repeated cases of broken promises over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is difficult to talk to people who have for several years been let down. Nigerians feel let down. The first question they ask you is: \u2018Is this another promise that will not be kept?\u2019 So, we must prove to Nigerians that this government is keeping to its promises,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that during his nationwide broadcast on Sunday, President Bola Tinubu ruled out the return of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, famously known as petrol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The National Orientation Agency, NOA, says poverty will worsen if petrol subsidy is returned, as demanded by #EndBadGovernance protesters. 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