Vice President of Nigeria, Pof. Yemi Osinbajo has said that Nigeria’s debt is among the lowest in the World. He said this at the 50th convocation of the University of Lagos in Akoka, Yaba.
Delivering a lecture at the convocation ceremony with the theme, “Nigeria Rising: The Path to Prosperity,” Osinbajo said:
“We restored medium-term planning with the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan which served as a useful loadstone in improving macroeconomic performance, boosting the real sector of the economy and building infrastructure. The decline in growth, which started at the end of 2014, has been reversed, inflation has stabilized at about 11 percent over the past six months and our current account was in surplus around 1.3 percent of the Gross Domestic Product last year.
“Our foreign reserves can cover at least six months of import of goods and services and despite understandable concerns, our debt burden is only about 22 percent of the size of our economy, which is one of the lowest ratios in the world.“We have very clear objectives. As you know, the problem of our country is not the planning or designing of great projects, it is in the actual implementation. We are fortunate that Muhammadu Buhari is not an orator, he is a doer.”
