BREAKING: NEC recommends temporary suspension of planned subsidy removal
The National Economic Council (NEC) has agreed that the plan to remove petrol subsidy should not be executed yet. It however said all preparatory plans with various segment of government, including States and the incoming administration should be intensified. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, who disclosed these to journalists after the Valedictory NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, however added that Council agreed that the subsidy regime must be removed eventually as it is not sustainable. “Today I was in the National Economic Council, where we discussed the issue of post-subsidy removal. Council agreed that the timing for the removal of subsidy should not be now, but that we should continue with all of the preparation works that needs to be done and that this preparation work has to be done in consultation with the states and other key stakeholders, including representati...