{"id":62785,"date":"2025-03-14T21:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62785"},"modified":"2025-03-14T21:21:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T21:21:55","slug":"economic-reforms-painful-but-necessary-tinubu-tells-catholic-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/14\/economic-reforms-painful-but-necessary-tinubu-tells-catholic-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Reforms Painful but Necessary, Tinubu Tells Catholic Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has acknowledged the economic hardship facing Nigerians but insists that his administration\u2019s tough reforms are crucial for national stability and long-term prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a delegation from the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), in Abuja on Friday, Tinubu defended policies such as fuel subsidy removal, emphasizing that they were necessary to avert financial collapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were spending the investment of our unborn children. Poverty has no religious identity; we must fight it together,\u201d he told the bishops, urging collective efforts in nation-building.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the CBCN President, Most Reverend Lucius Ugorji, the CBCN delegation recognized the government\u2019s efforts but pressed for more measures to ease the burden on citizens.<\/p>\n<p>They also urged the administration to relinquish control of religious pilgrimages and focus on national development.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu praised the Catholic Church\u2019s contributions to education and healthcare, citing initiatives like NELFUND to support students.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed his commitment to national unity, security, and religious tolerance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo President Bola Tinubu has acknowledged the economic hardship facing Nigerians but insists that his administration\u2019s tough reforms are crucial for national stability and long-term prosperity. Addressing a delegation from the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), in Abuja on Friday, Tinubu defended policies such as fuel subsidy removal, emphasizing that they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62786,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62785\/revisions\/62786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}