Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State briefed State House correspondents after the virtual NEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
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Thus was stated by Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed during a webinar organised by the Securities and Exchange Commission in collaboration with the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development with the theme, “Financing the Solid Minerals Sector through the Capital Market and the Critical Role of Commodity Exchanges” on Thursday.
Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, said this at the Public Consultation on the Draft 2022 to 2024 Medium Term Fiscal Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper on Thursday.
This followed a motion on: “Need to Critically Assess the Performance of the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) 2017-2020,” sponsored by Senator Abdu Suleiman Kwari.
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Zainab Ahmed, revealed this when she briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, the attainment of these deliverables would guarantee improved national productivity, promote business resilience, and attract the needed foreign direct investments that would create jobs and enhance the standard of living of all Nigerians.
The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, said this during an interface with heads of National Metrological Development Agency and Federal Government Staff Housing Loan Board
NASU made this known in a statement by its General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi on Sunday in Abuja.
Ahmed said this at a “Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative” General Assembly webinar.
The Senate Committee on Finance headed by Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola had last week announced that federal agencies like the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control ( NAFDAC) , NIGCOMSAT and Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC ) , had agreed to exit the National budget as far as their overhead costs were concerned.
Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, gave the commendation in a statement by Tijjani Mohammad, Principal Information Officer of the ministry, on Friday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Ministries of Interior, Works and Housing, Finance and the Federal Capital Territory are expected to make presentations at the meeting.
Olaniyan told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday that it was part of the apex bank’s responsibility to print money whenever the need arose.
At a recent programme in Benin, Obaseki had raised the alarm that oil revenue was shrinking and this made the government to print about N60 billion to augment allocation shared to states in March this year. He also wondered at the increasing debt burden hanging over the nation.
Obaseki spoke on Thursday against the backdrop of the denial by the Federal Government that the Federation Account Allocation Committee did not have enough to share for March, hence the resort to currency printing.
Describing the governor’s claim as very sad, the minister explained that the money being shared monthly at FAAC is revenue generated.
The directive followed the upholding of the decision of the Governing Board of NASENI, which is headed by President Muhammadu Buhari as Chairman
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, led other Principal Officers of both Chambers to the meeting, which held at the National Assembly, Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the meeting is being presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, had last week reportedly confirmed that the Federal Government would sell some-government-owned properties to fund the 2021 budget.