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Nigeria

Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed

Date of Birth: 16 June 1960
Place of Birth: Kaduna State


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Asiwaju Tinubu the taxman cometh

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...


Economic woes test voter loyalties

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...


Spend, spend, spend

Emefiele and the federal Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed have pledged the advances will be discontinued by 2025...


Atiku and Tinubu clash on the economy

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...


Oil spills and theft spike as big oil goes offshore

'The security authorities have been doing a lot of work and we have seen the production numbers pick up …some of the wells that had to be shut in because of the criminality have now been opened ' finance minister Zainab Ahmed told Bloomberg News on the sidelines of the Spring Meetings of the IMF in Washington DC on 21 April...


Contenders fill the stage

One of Buhari's responses was to back a 20% pay rise for the police but Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed and Secretary to the Federation Boss Mustapha are working on a wider plan to cut the public sector wage bill by restructuring the civil service...

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Buhari gambles on cash transfers on his way out

On 24 November Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed announced the government would introduce a cash transfer scheme next July for over 40 million Nigerians hardest hit by its plans to end fuel subsidies...


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