…Says 2026 budget could hit N100 trillion

Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NSA), Dr Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has said the current hardship in Nigeria is resolvable.

In a statement issued on Sunday, titled: “The big-budget decision of 2025 and expectations of Nigerians,” he said he was not surprised that the national budget has reached almost N50 trillion for 2025.

He said: “I predicted this possibility 5 years ago. We are simply not collecting potential revenue. Thanks to two men the possibility of hitting the N100 trillion budget by 2026 is a viable possibility!!!

“I think we are concentrating on the tax side of revenue and ignoring the governance side. If the twin efforts of tax and governance revenue are escalated, we ought to hit 500 trillion budget annually by 2030. To do this requires innovation.

“First bureaucratic procedures must give way to practical outcomes. The second is big leadership. Third is easing the hardship in the land by a quantitative easing and big-ticket palliatives so that all fees are waived at primary and secondary schools and health care is made free like the NHS in the United Kingdom (UK).”