{"id":30728,"date":"2020-10-04T19:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30728"},"modified":"2020-10-04T19:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T19:14:52","slug":"why-buhari-was-right-in-comparing-nigerias-fuel-price-with-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-was-right-in-comparing-nigerias-fuel-price-with-saudi-arabia","title":{"rendered":"Why Buhari was right in comparing Nigeria\u2019s fuel price with Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has given justification why President Muhammadu Buhari compared the prices of fuel between Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed said Buhari\u2019s comparison was justified because there was nothing wrong in comparing.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister stated this while featuring on Radio Nigeria current affairs programme, Radio Link, yesterday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>During his Independence Day speech, Buhari had compared the prices of buying fuel in Nigeria with countries like Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Niger and others.<\/p>\n<p>He had stressed that Nigerians can\u2019t pay less for fuel.<\/p>\n<p>But, Buhari\u2019s remark had led to criticisms by Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>Backing Buhari, Mohammed said: \u201cSome people have said that why should we compare ourselves to Saudi Arabia with better infrastructure and higher wages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur answer to that is very simple. Saudi Arabia has 34 million people while Nigeria has 200 million people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaudi Arabia produces 10 million barrels of crude oil per day, while Nigeria produces, at its best, 2.1 million barrel per day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-2\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTheir population is about one-sixth of Nigeria\u2019s population, and they are blessed with more resources. Therefore, they can afford to pay higher wages and build infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur argument must be put in proper perspective. As we have said, whatever money we make from the subsidy removal, we will invest in infrastructure development.\u201d<\/p>\n<nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2\" data-layout=\"list\">\n<div class=\"jp-related-posts-i2__row\" data-post-count=\"3\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has given justification why President Muhammadu Buhari compared the prices of fuel between Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and other countries. Mohammed said Buhari\u2019s comparison was justified because there was nothing wrong in comparing. The Minister stated this while featuring on Radio Nigeria current affairs programme, Radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,50,570],"class_list":["post-30728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-lai-mohammed","tag-saudi-arabia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Buhari was right in comparing Nigeria\u2019s fuel price with Saudi Arabia - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-was-right-in-comparing-nigerias-fuel-price-with-saudi-arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Buhari was right in comparing Nigeria\u2019s fuel price with Saudi Arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria: The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has given justification why President Muhammadu Buhari compared the prices of fuel between Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and other countries. 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