Nigeria: Oil Price Slump Didn't Catch Us Unawares, Jonathan Says

17 December 2014

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the current oil price decline did not take his administration by surprise.

Jonathan said at the Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday while launching the Youth Employment in Agriculture Programme (YEAP) and the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria (FAFIN) that for the past three years, his administration had been preparing by engaging in a carefully designed agricultural transformation agenda.

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