The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to put in place a coherent economic blueprint to tackle recession in the 2017 budget.
The NLC Chief Economist, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said that the preparation of the 2017 budget should not be delayed like that of 2016.
“In the 2017 budget, I think the government has a lot of work to do.
“So that we do not end up again like the 2016 budget that took such a long time with a lot of difficulties, problem here and there.
“For the medium term strategic paper that they had put forward already, I think it should be more critically evaluated so that it can provide a coherent base for the 2017 budget.
“Part of the problem we see however is in articulating the budget, we need to…
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