By Salisu Sani-Idris
The Federal Government has called for an urgent action to promote debt relief as a clear path to peace and prosperity and not an act of charity.
President Bola Tinubu made the call in his national statement at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday in New York.
Tinubu, represented by the Vice-President Kashim Shettima, also called for new and binding mechanism to manage sovereign debt.
” It is a sort of International Court of Justice for money, that will allow emerging economies to escape the economic straitjacket of primary production of unprocessed exports.
” It has been over for decades since the Lagos Action Plan outlined a route away from debt and dependence that…