World Bank Vice President tells Tinubu to sustain ongoing reforms despite hardship in Nigeria

Oct. 15, 2024 - Daily Post Nigeria

The Federal Government has been advised to sustain the ongoing reforms despite the hardship on Nigerians. The World Bank Vice President and Chief Economist, Mr Indermit Gill, who gave this advice, also hailed the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for the unification of the exchange rates.

He called on the federal government to provide cost-effective safety nets to protect the most vulnerable people from the hash impact of the reforms. According to him, “I don’t know if you agree with me or you don’t agree with me.

Gill believed that Nigerians’ need for jobs is immense, believing that in the next ten years, more than 12 million Nigerians would enter the workforce and stressed the need to generate jobs for them, and the need to attract investments, especially in the non-oil sector...