Nigeria’s proposed 15 per cent fuel levy is thus not inherently illegitimate. It could, in principle, serve as a bridge from a broken import-and-subsidy model towards a more resilient, domestically rooted energy economy. But in a country where nearly half the population lives in poverty, where food and transport costs have already exploded, and where the climate clock is ticking loudly, the design details are everything.
When President Bola Tinubu approved a 15 per cent import…
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