{"id":27674,"date":"2023-06-13T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/06\/13\/nigeria-president-bola-tinubu-urges-patience-after-fuel-subsidy-crisis\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:02:07","slug":"nigeria-president-bola-tinubu-urges-patience-after-fuel-subsidy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/06\/13\/nigeria-president-bola-tinubu-urges-patience-after-fuel-subsidy-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria President Bola Tinubu urges patience after fuel subsidy crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>President Bola Tinubu is urging Nigerians to be patient &#8211; amid a spike in petrol and food prices. The economic upheaval follows Tinubu&rsquo;s decision to end a long-standing fuel subsidy on his first day in office, last month. He argues the subsidy kept the price of petrol artificially low but at too-high a cost for the govt to bare. (Last year it totalled some 10 billion dollars). Speaking this Monday, Tinubu said the money-saved from the subsidy would be diverted to education and healthcare. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s correspondent Sam Olu Koya reports from Lagos<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu is urging Nigerians to be patient &#8211; amid a spike in petrol and food prices. The economic upheaval follows Tinubu&rsquo;s decision to end a long-standing fuel subsidy on his first day in office, last month. He argues the subsidy kept the price of petrol artificially low but at too-high a cost for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-27674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}