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Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele says Nigeria saved about ₦15.8 trillion from fuel subsidy removal between June 2023 and December 2025.

Here’s how the estimated savings were shared:

🔹 Federal Government — ₦5.43 trillion
🔹 36 State Governments — ₦6.52 trillion
🔹 Local Governments — ₦3.88 trillion

The biggest share went collectively to the states.

Inflation has also slowed. The latest NBS figure puts headline inflation at 15.43% in July 2026.

But food inflation is still much higher at 20.31%, and prices are still going up, just at a slower rate overall.

So with more money going to all levels of government since 2023, especially the states, what improvement have you actually noticed where you live?

Better roads?
Better hospitals?
Better schools?
More jobs?
Or has daily life not changed much?

#GrowNigeriaConversation #ReformScorecard #NigeriaEconomy

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@HenriettaSheman “They keep calling mighty sums” — that line sums up what a lot of Nigerians are feeling.

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Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele says Nigeria saved about ₦15.8 trillion from fuel subsidy removal between June 2023 and December 2025.

Here’s how the estimated savings were shared:

🔹 Federal Government — ₦5.43 trillion
🔹 36 State Governments — ₦6.52 trillion
🔹 Local Governments — ₦3.88 trillion

The biggest share went collectively to the states.

Inflation has also slowed. The latest NBS figure puts headline inflation at 15.43% in July 2026.

But food inflation is still much higher at 20.31%, and prices are still going up, just at a slower rate overall.

So with more money going to all levels of government since 2023, especially the states, what improvement have you actually noticed where you live?

Better roads?
Better hospitals?
Better schools?
More jobs?
Or has daily life not changed much?

#GrowNigeriaConversation #ReformScorecard #NigeriaEconomy

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@TosinFolorunso4 Transparency at state level is the missing half. Would you sign onto a citizens’ push for state level spending reports?

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@AbdulrasaqSah10 Thanks for this response. What one intervention would you want Kwara’s share spent on first?

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@Abdyekeen_Bash This is fair. The savings may be there on paper, but the real question is when people start feeling it in everyday life.

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@Hidden4rmTruth Better roads in Abuja noted…But if getting from Point A to Point B now costs twice as much, the road can only take so much credit. Or?

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Did your 2026 WASSCE result make sense to you?

WAEC released the results on 5 August. Since then, some schools have gone public with questions.

A school in Ogun State, says more than 30 of the 69 candidates it presented scored above 300 in this year’s UTME, and none scored below 200. In WASSCE Mathematics, the school says only about three or four came out with A1.

Another school administrator says students with strong UTME scores were graded D7, E8 and F9 in core subjects.

WAEC responded on 13 August. It said the results passed through its established marking, moderation and auditing processes, and cautioned the public against unverified claims.

Now the Initiative for School Excellence and Education Foundation has written to WAEC through its lawyers, giving the council 14 days to preserve examination records and create a way for candidates to see how their scores were arrived at.

For context, WAEC says 1,950,726 candidates sat the exam, and 61.54 per cent got credits in at least five subjects including English and Mathematics.

So rather than speculate, we want to hear from candidates and parents.

If you sat the 2026 WASSCE: did your result match the work you put in?

And if it came out exactly as you expected, say that too. That side counts.

#GrowNigeriaConversation #WASSCE2026 #WAEC

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@MuslimatAy4c What would settle this is WAEC publishing its grade thresholds and raw score distributions. Then nobody has to guess.

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Did your 2026 WASSCE result make sense to you?

WAEC released the results on 5 August. Since then, some schools have gone public with questions.

A school in Ogun State, says more than 30 of the 69 candidates it presented scored above 300 in this year’s UTME, and none scored below 200. In WASSCE Mathematics, the school says only about three or four came out with A1.

Another school administrator says students with strong UTME scores were graded D7, E8 and F9 in core subjects.

WAEC responded on 13 August. It said the results passed through its established marking, moderation and auditing processes, and cautioned the public against unverified claims.

Now the Initiative for School Excellence and Education Foundation has written to WAEC through its lawyers, giving the council 14 days to preserve examination records and create a way for candidates to see how their scores were arrived at.

For context, WAEC says 1,950,726 candidates sat the exam, and 61.54 per cent got credits in at least five subjects including English and Mathematics.

So rather than speculate, we want to hear from candidates and parents.

If you sat the 2026 WASSCE: did your result match the work you put in?

And if it came out exactly as you expected, say that too. That side counts.

#GrowNigeriaConversation #WASSCE2026 #WAEC

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@Simeoneprg That is frustrating, especially after the work it took to score 334 and then seeing D7 in both English and Maths.

Please put in a formal complaint. WAEC says candidates can go through its state offices or the online complaints platform. Get it in writing and keep your dates.

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@Haleewin An independent audit is exactly what has been requested, with a 14 day deadline that runs out at the end of this month. Whether WAEC engages or lets it go to court will tell us a lot.

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@LORDAB3989 And it would cost the council very little too.

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@MADUJR01 The interesting part is that WAEC marked this year using its new Digital Examiner Mark System, so the marks already exist in a database.

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@abdulofkwara True, and no one should sit at home complaining without filing anything.

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@BGWay01 We agree 💯

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Fair, though the comparison is trickier than it looks. WAEC announced 38.32% for 2025, but when it released this year’s figure it described 61.54% as a 1.42 point decline from 2025, which puts last year at about 62.96%. So by WAEC’s own final numbers, 2026 is slightly down, not up.

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@esegine_rita Well put Rita. Nobody is asking WAEC to change anybody’s grade. The ask is much smaller than that, which is to show how the grades were arrived at.

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@Add_Mariana Glad to hear she did well and thank you for saying so. We asked for both sides for a reason.

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You are right that our exams test recall more than understanding & several factors feed into any result.

Still, when the same children score above 300 in one national exam and F9 in another within months, it is worth asking rather than assuming. Did anyone close to you sit it this year? We would like to hear how it went.