Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Honourable Minister of Finance, Budget
and National Planning and also member of the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) on
Covid have been exacting her mandate to bravely launch out her first order of
business as an immensely important project: fixing Nigeria’s economy. She, who
appears to have divinely been made for the job, had taken a periscopic view of
the economy, knowing from the beginning that it was going to be a promise to
strictly keep the workouts and to ensure that the process does not only move on
but yields the expected result in the face of the most uncertain moment in our
nation’s history.
Ahmed’s sound economic management and strong sense of
diversification underscores the need for true diversification with its
objective given paramount importance. She has always emphasized private sector
investment, particularly in the non-oil sector, promoting local or domestic
enterprise, job creation, poverty alleviation, preserving fiscal discipline,
and human capital development. She, a manager with a clear focus does not
compromise her undying desire for Nigeria’s infrastructural development,
seriously encourages inward foreign direct investment (FDI), undertaking to
largely combat corruption, pluck leakages, ensure low tax rates, ease of doing
business, and stable macroeconomic environment piloting various financial
strategic plans with MDAs under her ministry. With key economic and financial
policy makers at the whim of her leadership, she has earned the confidence of
many who commit daily to ensuring economic and financial stability of the
country. She has been nominated by the Abuja Business and Excellence Group for Award for Outstanding Economic & Financial Leadership 2020.
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