 Nigeria's field subsidy debate dates back to the 1980s. For next year, the government plans to pay for petrol subsidy for the first time. This isn't good news to an analyst though, who was a guest on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. Ngoziqa Ohechisi reports. Nigeria's federal government plans to fund petrol subsidy for the first six months of 2022. What will follow afterwards would be a total deregulation of the downstream oil and gas sector. That's according to the finance minister. A public affairs analyst, Nick Aguile, doubts that. He says the government has failed for close to seven years to deal with few subsidies, despite promises. The government has said in 2022 that we pay subsidies for the first six months and then there will be a total deregulation of the downstream sector. And I say, this is not going to happen. Why do I say so? I say so because the government has been thinking, in the community of this, thinking yet that they were going to deregulate the downstream sector, not pay any subsidies. The diesel that is used by mass competes by coal, used by generators in part-week, is only deregulated. Cozine that is used by the coal is only deregulated. The price of cooking gas has gone up in recent months, just like the prices of essential food like bread. How will the average Nigerian be able to pay for petrol if subsidy is removed in July? Nick Aguile advises that the government should take care of citizens by building good roads and providing quality education and health care. If this government's almost forage to remove subsidy, what it is going to mean for Nigeria is that about two to three million Nigerian activists, eight of these people that is conscious of the tax, and government will divert their money to education, to health care, to infrastructure, to security, to policies, that Nigeria has some people on very basis. Supporters of few subsidies say it is the only social benefit enjoyed by Nigerians. Critics say it's too expensive to maintain and at worst opaque. Nigeria is on a track to spending nearly three trillion naira subsidizing petrol this year alone. For Plus TV Africa, Nga Zika, Ohio Chessie.