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Photo Caption: From Left; Minister for Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun (left) receiving the Chief Executive, Crown Agents, Fergus Drake; Events and Meetings Consultant, Jacqueline Romoff and Partnership Manager, Duncan Hart, during a meeting between Nigeria and Officials of the British Firm on the sideline of the 2018 IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington D.C, on Thursday, 19th April, 2018 

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The Federal Government has said the news making the rounds that Ministers who were invited to the US-Nigeria Investment Summit in Washington, DC, on April 19, 2018 shunned the forum is untrue. Speaking through a statement from London on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, added that most of the Ministers “slated to attend the event …

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…Targets 7% Growth In the Next Three Years  …Ogun State Has Attracted Over $2bn Investments – Amosun   The Honourable Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, disclosed on Tuesday that the country’s economic outlook for the year 2018 and beyond was positive. She stated that the country was now resilient after exiting recession and has the potential to achieve a …

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The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Tuesday called for more technical and institutional support from the Africa Regional Technical Assistance Center West 2 (AFRITAC West 2) for West African countries. Adeosun made the call while declaring open the sixth Steering Committee meeting of the IMF –AFRITAC West 2 in Abuja which was attended by the Senior Resident Representative …

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Executive Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and the Honourable Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, will on Thursday, March 1, 2018 meet with business leaders, business owners and tax payers in Kaduna over the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS). The Kaduna State Government is hosting the VAIDS Stakeholders’ Symposium, which is expected to have in attendance …

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The Federal Government has agreed to look into claims of surrounding states losing revenues to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun made the offer on Monday when she received the Niger State Governor, Alhaji Mohammed Bello in her office in Abuja. Adeosun lamented that losing N1 billion monthly to the FCT was a significant …

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UP to N350 billion will be released in the first tranche for capital projects in this year’s budget, Minister of Finance Mrs. Kemi Adeosun said yesterday. At the presentation of the 2017 Appropriation Act in Abuja, the minister said the Federal Government had enough cash for the execution of key projects and initiatives this fiscal year. “We are ready, we …

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The Nigerian Minister of Finance, Honorable Kemi Adeosun, says the country will benefit by signing up for the African Development Bank funded ENABLE Youth (Empowering Novel Agri-Business-Led Employment) (http://APO.af/276D5p) Program. Nigeria’s signatory to the ENABLE youth program will make the oil-rich country the third African country coming behind Cameroon and Sudan to benefit from funds under the AfDB Feed Africa initiative. …

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Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun yesterday said high level corruption was endemic in Nigeria because it was too easy for people to loot public funds. He said the Federal Government was working to block avenues for looting and make it harder to hide stolen funds abroad. Adesoun spoke when she chaired a showcase session on the second day of the …

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Nigeria’s finance minister, Kemi  Adeosun  says the country will not apply for an IMF, International Monetary Fund loan as it is pursuing its own economic reform plan. “For us the IMF is really a lender of last resort when you have balance of payments problem. Nigeria doesn’t have balance of payments problems per se, it has a fiscal problem,” Adeosun …

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