In the over five years that President Goodluck Jonathan has been
presiding over the affairs of the country, the Federal Government has borrowed
N5.04tn from the domestic debt market.
Jonathan became Nigeria’s acting President on February 10, 2010
and substantive President on May 6,2010 following the death of
President Umaru Yar’Adua on May 5,2010. On May 29, 2011, he was sworn in as an
elected president.
Records at the Debt Management Office showed that the domestic
debt of the Federal Government stood at N3,466,360,000,000 (N3.47tn) as of
March 31, 2010.
The latest debt statistics from the DMO as of March 31, 2015
showed that the domestic debt had risen to N8,507,545,474,000
(N8.51tn).
This means that in the last five years, the Federal Government
had borrowed N5.04tn from domestic lenders. It also means that within the
period, the domestic debt of the Federal Government grew by 157.48 per cent.
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