'I wish oil would dry up so we could start using our brains' - Kaduna state governor, Nasir el-Rufai says Kaduna state governor, Nasir el-Rufai says he wishes that Nigeria's oil reserves will dry up so that we can begin to apply our brains to explore other avenues for revenue generation. The governor said this when he spoke at the 2017 town hall meeting/founder’s day celebration in memory of Ojetunji Aboyade, a renowned economist, in Ibadan, Oyo state yesterday September 9th. “Because Nigeria gets easy money from oil, the nation has lost its thinking initiative on how to develop other sources of revenue and diversify the economy. We get easy money, we do not collect taxes and our taxes are six per cent of Gross Domestic Product; that is an average of 21per cent. We stop respecting the intellectuals that we have in our universities because we get easy money. This is very sad. I wish the oil will dry up so that we can begin to use our brains because we have stopped ...
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