Nigeria, April 16 -- Malam Nasir El-Rufai, the former Kaduna State governor, has disclosed that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government was now paying more for fuel subsidy than before.

El-Rufai, who stated this while speaking with newsmen after delivering the lead paper at a capacity-building workshop on Enhancing Skills of Government Officials in Policy Implementation and Productive Human Resource Management for political appointees in Maiduguri on Monday, said, "The federal government is now subsidizing fuel; many people don't know this."

Applauding the policy, El-Rufai added, "It is a right policy. I have always supported the withdrawal of oil subsidy, but in the course of implementing the policy, the government realised ...