Zainab Ahmed

Members of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) are currently meeting, in Abuja, ahead of the 97th National Economic Council meeting scheduled for Thursday. This was the first time the governors under the chairmanship of Kayode Fayemi of…

Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, says Nigeria does not have a debt problem, rather a revenue problem. As of December 2018, Nigeria’s debt profile was N24.387tn. It rose by 12. 25 percent from N21.752tn in 2017. And the country’s…

A Don, Dr. Bright Erega, has urged the Federal Government not to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) by whatever percentage for now as it would worse the poor purchasing power of the ordinary Nigerians. Eregha, who teaches Economics at…

Zainab Ahmed, the former minister of finance, says the government has plans to raise value-added tax to 7.5% by 2020 from the present 5%. The former minister made this known on Tuesday while speaking on the sidelines of the ongoing…

Stories by Babajide Okeowo The acting Director-General, of the Commission, Mary Uduk made known when the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed inaugurated the steering committee for the initiative.The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…

Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, says National Youth Service Corps members will receive the new minimum wage as allowance. Speaking on Thursday while intimating the press on the activities of her ministry, Ahmed said the federal…

Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has said that the Federal Government has recovered N605 billion through the implementation of the whistleblower policy. The minister made this known during a briefing on the ministry’s activities, on…

The Federal Government says it is yet to devise a workable formula for the removal of fuel subsidy. Speaking at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, on Wednesday, Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, said removal of…