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Bismarck Rewane, NESG raise concern over Nigeria’s debt 

Fakoyejo Olalekan by Fakoyejo Olalekan
February 3, 2020
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Bismarck Rewane, Nigerian Economic Summit Group raise concern over Nigeria’s debt 
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Bismarck Rewane and the Nigerian Economic Summit Group have countered the claim of the Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmad, that Nigeria doesn’t have a debt problem.

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Financial Derivatives Company, Rewane said the total public debt, which rose to N26.22 trillion as of September 2019 from N25.70 trillion in the same period of 2018, raises concern.

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In its 2020 Macroeconomic Outlook, NESG stated that “Nigeria’s mounting debt profile is a major concern despite the country having about $900bn worth of dead capital in properties and agricultural lands (PwC Nigeria, 2019).”

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How Nigeria’s debt stands: The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported that the nation’s total debt rose from N25.70 trillion in March 2019 to N26.14 trillion by the end of September 2019. This means, quarter on quarter, Nigeria’s total debt stock rose by 1.71% or N440 billion.

Breakdown of debt stock: Nigeria’s debt stock category for the third quarter of 2019 shows that the country’s total external debt is estimated at N8.27 trillion, constituting 31.55% of total debt for the Federal Government, States, and the FCT.

  • The total domestic debt rose to N17.94 trillion or 68.45% of total debt stock within the quarter.
  • The Federal Government’s domestic debt was put at N13.9 trillion, constituting FGN Bonds, FGN Savings Bonds, FGN Sukuk, Green Bond, Promissory Notes, Nigerian Treasury Bills and Bonds.
  • All the 36 states accrued domestic debt of N4.04 trillion as of the end of September 2019.

[READ MORE: Bismarck Rewane queries CBN and FG, says Nigerian economy in critical times)

A further look into the breakdown of debts accruable to states in Nigeria disclosed that states’ debt profile increased marginally by 1.9% within the last quarter.

What Nigeria needs to do: According to the Economic Group, the properties with dead capital are the National Art Theatre, the National Stadia in Lagos and Abuja. The group also included Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, and the Federal Nursing Hospital, Ikoyi as the redundant assets that the government needs to commercialise or privatise in order to unlock finance and economic growth.

After the country’s debt had grown by 214.90% over the past six years, from N8.32 trillion in June 2013 to N26.2 trillion as of September 2019, a Financial Derivatives Company’s bi-monthly economic and business update disclosed that, “It is vital to employ proactive measures to reduce the current debt level.”

Constraint affecting economic growth: It was disclosed that certain constraints such as unproductive borrowing, exchange rate volatility, low-interest rate movements, inefficient loan utilisation, and poor debt management practices are negatively affecting the investment in Nigeria.

The group, which is a private sector-led think-tank said the significant borrowings had gone unnoticed and Nigeria needs infrastructure development to boost the economy.

“The ever-increasing government spending is yet to yield any notable results; poverty is on the rise and health and educational facilities remain inadequate amid the fast-growing population. Debt service has become a significant portion of the expected revenue in 2020. It accounted for over 60% of the government’s independent revenue in 2019.

“The total debt has been increasing ($85.39bn) but total factor productivity growth has been declining (-0.4%). This implies that the FG borrowings are hardly used for productive purposes. The debt service, after a while, becomes a burden on the government and its fiscal balance.”

Meanwhile, the group said for Nigeria to avoid “an unnecessary debt burden on future generations”, there’s a need for the government to intensify the effort of generating more revenue from alternative sources.


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  1. Stanley says:
    February 4, 2020 at 7:53 am

    Corrupt Nigerian politicians and their allies in the civil service have always employed the use of debt instruments to access cheap money which they often failed to spend productively. Most of such funds have been spent on flimsy projects or programmes to score cheap political points, while a good portion has been embezzled. Even the huge funds that have been continuously channeled into boosting agricultural production for more than a decade now, have not returned expected levels of success and employment creation, hence the need to re-asses the current strategy. The Federal Govt appears to be overwhelmed by the current economic and social chaos in the country, which is why I think this economy needs to be restructured so that growth & development potential can be harnessed across all states simultaneously, allowing people to hold their state governors fully to account instead of the current situation in which everyone is pointing fingers at the Federal Govt. Many people don’t realize that those states with seemingly rich natural resources will most likely turn out to be the losers in a restructured economy in the long run, as they may not have the motivation to develop other industries & talents needed to advance their economies beyond the rent-seeking stage.

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