Nigeria must not continue to borrow - Senate President

The Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, on Monday, said Nigeria must not continue to borrow. He stated that Nigeria should have enough finance for its needs. He accused revenue generating agencies of not remitting enough revenues to the Federal Government. According to him, this has led to insufficient revenue for the government.

He spoke in Abuja during the third convocation of the University of Benin/National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, for postgraduate programmes.

The Director-General, NILDS, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, said 65 graduands were conferred with various masters degrees.

He stated that they comprised 28 graduands in Legislative Studies; 15 in Legislative Drafting and 22 in Parliamentary Programmes. A former Senate President, Ken Nnamani, lamented poor infrastructure in the country. He said Nigeria's natural disaster is rather human beings.