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Nigeria

Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed

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


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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...


Much to be modest about

Comments last month from Finance Budget and National Planning Minister Zainab Ahmed interpreted to mean that the official exchange rate had been merged with the prevailing sub-N400/US$ rate at the influential Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Rate Fixing (NAFEX) were promptly denied by Governor Emefiele (AC Vol 61 No 15 The shake-up that didn't happen)...


Unbalancing the books

Just as concerning to Buhari Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed and central bank (CBN) governor Godwin Emefiele are Nigeria's struggles with inflation the Naira and foreign exchange reserves revenues and the deficit and the inevitable rise in borrowing to fund the proposed N13...

Figures released by Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed suggest that between January and August federally retained oil revenues available for the 2020 federal budget were greater than the pro-rata budget...


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