Finance Minister

Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, has presented a new minimum wage template to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, meeting the 48-hour deadline. Edun, along with the Minister of Budget and National…
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The Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, has refuted allegations suggesting the Nigerian federal government’s intention to utilize N20 trillion from the Pension Fund for infrastructure projects. In a press statement issued on Thursday in…
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The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, invited the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami over allegations bothering on the approved payment of the sum of $200 million to two private firms as…
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The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says Nigeria is in good economic standing, and is not broke. Ms Ahmed spoke at the 6th edition of President Muhammadu Buhari’s scorecard, tagged “PMB Scorecard…
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Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, on Monday sacked Charles Adu Boahen, the minister of state for finance, after allegations of impropriety were circulated by a well-known Ghanaian investigative journalist. A statement from the presidency…
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has reacted to the comment of the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmad in the ongoing process of redesigning three series of the Naira, the Bank insists it followed the law and…
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The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed on Friday faulted the naira redesigning program of the Central Bank of Nigeria warning the timing for the implementation of the policy is wrong. Zainab Ahmed said that…
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has scheduled a roundtable for Oct. 20 with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor and the Minister of Finance over the crisis in the aviation sector. Gbajabiamila said this…
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“The total amount of subsidy per day is 18.397 billion per day,” she said. “So if you are projecting for the full year, it would be 6.715 trillion. If you are projecting for half year, it would be 50 percent of that.” She said this was…
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The House of Representatives has summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajia Zainab Ahmed to make available before it all documents relating to subsidy claims from 2013 till date. Rep Ibrahim Aliyu, Chairman,…
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