Zainab Ahmed

April 28, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government on Friday, denied reports that it has suspended the removal of fuel subsidy. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, made the clarification in a statement signed by Yunusa Tanko...

April 17, (THEWILL) – The Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Sunday, said the Federal Government will pay N5,000 to 10 million households for six months, as palliatives for removing petrol subsidy after June. Ahmed, who...

For most Nigerians hopeful of a new lease of life with the coming to power of a new government after the 2023 general elections, the content of the last budget expenditure of the Federal Government may jolt them into...

December 01, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government on Thursday said it has supported States of the federation with a total sum of N5.03 trillion and an additional US$3.4 billion since 2015. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed,...

November 22, (THEWILL) - The Senate has summoned the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, to explain an allocation of N206 billion inserted into the 2023 budget of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. The invitation followed...

The outright disowning and public deprecation by the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, of the recent innocuous policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) regarding the redesigning and re-issue of some Naira notes, now...

November 03, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives has rejected the N5.112 billion estimated 2023 budget for the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation (AuGF). The Chairman of the House Committee on Public Accounts (PAC), Wole Oke,...

October 28, (THEWILL) - The Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has disassociated her ministry from the planned move by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to redesign the naira even though President Muhammadu Buhari approved...

Emerging economies across the would especially countries across sub sahara Africa have always had a date with debt servicing. And this alone is causing a huge deficit to their domestic fiscal policies. A situation that many of this emerging...

Nigeria’s South-West region pooled the largest tax revenue of N516.6 billion in 2021 representing 46.7 percent of the aggregate N1,017 trillion by the entire six regions. The figure is also higher than those of the South-East, North-East, North-Central...