{"id":173821,"date":"2025-09-06T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=173821"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:16:13","slug":"to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-economy-pat-utomi-slams-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=173821","title":{"rendered":"To use revenue as evidence of progress is not to understand economics, it\u2019s crippling the economy \u2013 Pat Utomi slams FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, has criticized the federal government\u2019s economic strategy, warning that its revenue-driven approach is crippling Nigeria\u2019s productive capacity. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, Utomi argued that government resources are being misallocated to non-productive sectors, particularly the political class, instead of critical growth areas like agriculture and manufacturing&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/2025\/08\/02\/to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-economy-pat-utomi-slams-fg\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, has criticized the federal government\u2019s economic strategy, warning that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6.jpg",650,445,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6-300x205.jpg",300,205,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6.jpg",640,438,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6.jpg",640,438,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6.jpg",650,445,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6.jpg",650,445,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6.jpg",650,445,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6.jpg",650,445,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/173821-to-use-revenue-as-evidence-of-progress-is-not-to-understand-economics-its-crippling-the-ec68bb8b60ac3e6-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}