{"id":915919,"date":"2022-01-13T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/13\/nass-worried-about-nigerias-borrowings-nobody-likes-taking-loans\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T11:49:25","slug":"nass-worried-about-nigerias-borrowings-nobody-likes-taking-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/nass-worried-about-nigerias-borrowings-nobody-likes-taking-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"NASS Worried About Nigeria\u2019s Borrowings \u2014 Nobody Likes Taking Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_820982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-820982\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-820982 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Senate-President-Ahmad-Lawan-738x375-1-600x305.jpg\" alt=\"Lawan: NASS Worried About Nigeria\u2019s Borrowings \u2014 Nobody Likes Taking Loans\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-820982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmad Lawan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has expressed that the national assembly is concerned about the country\u2019s level of borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>There have been concerns about the country\u2019s high level of borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, Lawan said the country needs to generate more revenue to reduce its borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody likes taking loans or debt whether as an individual or a country,\u201d the senate president said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_1e1 td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a0Buhari Approaches World Bank, Others For $30million Loan To Build Vaccine Plant In Nigeria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what do you do when you are not generating enough? We are concerned about our level of borrowing, and the best way to reduce it is to get funds from independent sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect that when we generate more we borrow less.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawan further stated that the national assembly under his leadership has stabilised Nigeria\u2019s economy and polity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Lawan President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has expressed that the national assembly is concerned about the country\u2019s level of borrowing. There have been concerns about the country\u2019s high level of borrowing. Speaking with journalists on Wednesday in Abuja, Lawan said the country needs to generate more revenue to reduce its borrowing. \u201cNobody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}