…proposes to spend N3.3tn on fuel subsidy between January and June 2023 The Federal Government has concluded plans to do away with fuel subsidy by June 2023. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed revealed this on Tuesday in Abuja during a press conference to mark the end of the 28th National
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Nigeria to sink deeper into debt as it hits N38trn in 2021 —Finance Minister
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, has said the total public debts of Nigeria would hit N38trn by December 2021. Ahmed, who disclosed this during her presentation to the Senate Committee on Local and Foreign Debts, said paucity of funds was responsible for the increasing number of abandoned road projects across
Read moreSenate summons Finance Minister, Accountant General over variations in cost of contracts
The Nigerian Senate summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, and the Federation’s Accountant General, Ahmed Idris, along with the Managing Director of the NSIA, Uche Orji, and the contractors handling the projects to appear before him and Explain the variations in the cost of major federal highways that are run
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