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The Senate has summoned the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, and the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, to appear before it and brief the senators on the current state of the economy.
Senate decision was sequel to a motion by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Gas, Senator Bassey Akpan.
The upper chamber did not give the specific date that the two government officials would appear before it.
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The Senate has summoned the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, and the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, to appear before it and brief the senators on the current state of the economy.
Senate decision was sequel to a motion by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Gas, Senator Bassey Akpan.
Akpan’s motion was titled : “Urgent need to address the present economic state of the nation”
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The Senate, however, did not give a specific date that the two government officials would appear before it.
Akpan while making his submission stated that the economy had slipped into a full-blown recession, and added that it needed an urgent remedy.
“I wish to draw the attention of this chamber to the statistics of Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on the state of Nigerian economy. Statistics have shown that our economy has gone into a full-blown recession,” he had said.
After listening to him, Senate President Bukola Saraki stood down the matter to Wednesday- when the motion on the economy was debated.
According to the NBS, 1.5 million Nigerians became unemployed in 2016.This is besides 13.7 percent inflation rate, and the depreciating value of the naira.
At its MPC meeting on Tuesday, the apex bank resolved to adopt a flexible foreign exchange policy just as it said that a recession is imminent.
