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Aregbesola, Fayemi, Ahmed lead discourse on leadership question

Aregbesola, Fayemi, Ahmed lead discourse on leadership question

Essence of campaigns “Political campaign is all politics. On the other hand, governance involves more seriousness and it is more practical, more concrete and has physical manifestations. When we see governance, we feel it as…

Ahmed commissions three mobile scanners for Nigerian seaports

Ahmed commissions three mobile scanners for Nigerian seaports

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajia Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed yesterday, in Lagos, commissioned three new Nuctech Mobile Scanners for the Nigeria Customs Service to be located at the Apapa, Tin Can Island and…

TSA: Evolving strategies to unbundle challenges

TSA: Evolving strategies to unbundle challenges

Six years after its adoption as a single account for collection of Federal Government’s earnings across MDAs, the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy is being revisited for overhaul, gap closing, among others, ABDULWAHAB ISA writes…

FG budgets N190bn for 2022 census

FG budgets N190bn for 2022 census

NPC waiting for presidential proclamation The Federal Government has earmarked about N190 billion for the National Population Commission (NPC) to conduct the long overdue housing and population census in 2022. Chairman, Senate Committee on National…

Nigeria’s recurrent expenditure hits N28trn in 10 years as Capex suffers setback

Nigeria’s recurrent expenditure hits N28trn in 10 years as Capex suffers setback

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and largest economy, may have continued to pay lip service to promises by successive governments to spend more on infrastructural development with less attention on recurrent expenses. Findings by Saturday…

NESG: Prioritising real sector to boost FX inflow

NESG: Prioritising real sector to boost FX inflow

A 2021 Macroeconomic Outlook report from the stable of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) revealed that the time is ripe for government to prioritise the country’s manufacturing sector in order to boost forex inflow…

Senate asks Education Ministry, JAMB, NIMC to suspend use of NIN for exams

Senate asks Education Ministry, JAMB, NIMC to suspend use of NIN for exams

The Senate, yesterday, asked the Federal Ministry of Education, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), to suspend the compulsory use of the National Identity Number (NIN) as a…

Evaluating economic implication of unsafe schooling

Evaluating economic implication of unsafe schooling

With kidnapping returning to the nation’s centers of learning, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, last week, rallied stakeholders, members of organised private sectors, state governors and top security officials to…

Nigeria won’t progress without infrastructure borrowing –Ahmed

Nigeria won’t progress without infrastructure borrowing –Ahmed

…says supplementary budget for COVID-19 vaccination underway Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said that Nigeria’s economy will regress and get stunted if the country refuses to borrow to build infrastructures.…

FG: Inflation to remain above single digit

FG: Inflation to remain above single digit

Real GDP to decline by 4.2% Nominal GDP to hit N132.1bn by 2021 The Federal Government has said inflation is expected to remain above single digit over the medium term. It said this is giving…