The current government has put Nigeria into a debt of $80 billion.
Source: Peoples Democratic Party vice presidential candidate Peter Obi (October 2018)
Nigeria’s public debt was $73.2 billion in June 2018.
R8 out of every R10 spent by government goes to salaries of civil servants
Source: Times Live and the Citizen newspapers (October 2018)
R3.52 out of every R10 spent by government in 2017/18 went to civil servant salaries
South Africa spends about seven times more per head on healthcare than Nigeria does
Source:
Nigeria's ThisDay newspaper
(Feb 2018)
In 2015, Nigeria spent US$97 pp & SA US$471
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