Atiku's deadly alternative to fuel subsidy removal

An enduring memory of the regime of deceit and chicanery piloted by former head of state Ibrahim Babangida was the huge debate club it once turned Nigeria into as to whether the federal government should take a $2.4 billion loan offered to it by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to rescue the nation’s struggling economy. Devaluation of the naira, fuel subsidy reduction and other conditions set by the supranational financial organisation in 1985 had sparked public uproar, on account of which the military administration decided to throw the matter open for the public to debate. The idea for the loan had come at a time Nigerians were growing weary of the repeatedly postponed date for the country’s transition to democratic governance, hence the growing public suspicion of every move made by the administration that had become reputed for double-speak.