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Cardoso says Tinubu’s Tough Reforms Are Showing Positive Results For Nigeria
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Olayemi Cardoso, says the economic reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu’s administration in the past eighteen months are tough but already yielding positive results.
Cardoso made this known in excerpts released after the 2025 IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington D.C. He said Nigeria’s delegation attended the meetings to showcase the economic steps taken under Tinubu’s leadership.
According to him, the country has strengthened its monetary buffers and is now in a better position to withstand external shocks. He assured Nigerians that although the reforms are not easy, they are pushing the economy from a place of weakness toward one of growing strength.
Since 2023, Tinubu’s government has rolled out major reforms like liberalising the foreign exchange market and removing fuel subsidies. Under Cardoso’s leadership, new measures like the FX code, the Electronic Foreign Exchange System (EFEMS), and the recapitalisation of the financial system were also introduced.
Meanwhile, Nigeria’s inflation dropped to 23.18 percent in March 2025, while the interest rate stood at 27.50 percent in February, even as the cost of living remained high.
TV anchor Rufai Oseni makes headlines as he speaks on fuel subsidy in Nigeria. He shared that Nigeria can have fuel subsidy without the long queues at filling stations.
“When we were still paying subsidies, there were no long queues. We were subsidising. So you can still have a subsidy regime going on, and there will be no long queues because production was close by. Dangote had it. That’s just it. That argument also falls flat.
“The biggest beneficiaries of subsidy are not Nigerians. They are crony capitalists that have big infrastructure, and they do contracts. They have been the biggest beneficiaries of the subsidy,” he said.
Lagos State Governor, Sanwo-Olu, speaks to those in the electricity sector about the usual blackouts in the state.
He speaks on ways things can change in the state and how electricity can be provided.
“We need to drop corporate egos, abandon long-standing excuses, and confront the harsh realities obstructing progress in the power sector.”
“We, state governments, used to give excuses that everything is centralised, so the Federal Government has unbundled it now. What have we done in a year and a half?” Sanwo-Olu asked.
“We take two steps forward, we go five steps backward,” he said.
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has declared Thursday, August 20, a work-free day for public servants in the state to mark the Isese Festival.
Speaking on the celebration, he said “Ìṣẹ̀ṣe is not a relic. It is a living expression of our traditions and a celebration of Yoruba spirituality as an important part of Nigeria’s cultural and religious landscape,” he said.
He added “When the drums sound in Lagos on Thursday, they answer drums in Havana, in Salvador, in Port of Spain. Fifty-five million people and counting. Lagos is not observing a local holiday. Lagos is standing at the centre of a global heritage,” Aregbe said.
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