Assume you’re the President of Nigeria or Governor of your state. You’ve recently raised the Minimum Wage from N18,000 to N30,000. Oil prices have now crashed. COVID-19 lockdown has decimated your revenue collection. What will you do? Sack some staff? What? #GovernancePuzzles

Assume that because of the crash in oil prices and crash in revenue as a result of COVID-19, you approach NASS or your State House of Assembly to reduce their salaries & allowances, but they threaten to block your Bills and even impeach you, what will you do? #GovernancePuzzles

The biggest component of the cost of governance is Personnel Costs (salaries and allowances). Total NASS budget is about N120 billion. Total FGN Personnel cost is about N2 Trillion. Even if you totally delete NASS, you only save N120b. What else will you cut? #GovernancePuzzles