Reading the 2023 budget in January outgoing Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed told the National Assembly that the government had spent 80% of its revenues on debt service in the first 11 months of last year...
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Emefiele's decision without consulting Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed but backed by outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari to issue new naira banknotes and recall some 2...
To address the inflation and hardship caused by ending the subsidy the World Bank has offered the government $800 million and Zainab Ahmed the finance minister in the outgoing government of Buhari had promised that support would be provided to 50m Nigerians from 10m households (AC Vol 62 No 25 Buhari gambles on cash transfers on his way out)...
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Late last month Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed signalled that the subsidy would continue until 1 June at least suggesting that the incoming government was not planning its removal as soon as it took office...
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On 5 April outgoing Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed announced she had secured US$800 million from the World Bank to pay for cash transfers to Nigeria's poorest 50 million people to compensate them for ending fuel subsidies...
The PDP's candidate Atiku says he would consider debt restructuring should he be elected a policy sternly ruled out by Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed...
Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed's October presentation on the 2023 federal budget conceded that projected 2023 debt service payments of N6...
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Emefiele and the federal Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed have pledged the advances will be discontinued by 2025...
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9bn) about 60% lower than treasury forecasts for the period said Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed last month (AC Vol 63 No 14 Atiku and Tinubu clash on the economy)...
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With presidential elections eight months away and Buhari's second term set to expire on 29 May next year the country's short-term economic management will depend on Emefiele Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed...