This Should Fit a democracy day Speech

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Nigeria continue to live below her capacity amidst her colossus potentials. The wish to take our place among the Nations of Nations would continue to stare us in the face, until we take a paradigm shift in our Leadership and priorities. One of these paradigm shifts is economic in nature and Dr. Ayo Teriba spoke succinctly on what we need to do. "If we have to compete, we have to commit."   


FG must build buffers to protect Nigerians from fluctuations in oil price – Teriba
Chief Executive Officer, Economic Associates, Ayo Teriba, in this interview, argues that Nigeria could have avoided the economic recession, devaluation and inflation that accompanied the loss in foreign exchange revenue due to decline in crude oil price between 2014 and 2016, if government had taken the right step namely to build external reserves buffer that will protect the nation from the vagaries of the crude oil market.Vanguard

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