The newly appointed Acting Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed on Monday assumed office after her appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday to replace Kemi Adeosun, who resigned.
Theย Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Dr Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, and other directors of the Ministry, on Monday, received the Supervising Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed in Abuja.
Ahmed while addressing members of staff of the ministry who had gathered to receive her, said going forward,ย she would work closely with the Permanent Secretary to catch up on theย activities of the Ministry.
She said: โThese are very challenging times for our country.
โIt means we are part of the economic team that has been charged with making sure there is economic stability in our country.
โWe have very serious revenue challenges and it is up to us to shore up the revenues of this country.
โMr President has a lot of confidence that we can do this. We are working for Mr President, but at the end of the day, we are working for the benefit of the citizens of our country.
โThere are a lot of sacrifices that I know that you have done, and we are going to push ourselves to still do more so that at the end of the day we will sayย Alhamdulillahโ glory be to God,โ she said.
President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Zainab Ahmed to oversee the Ministry of Finance after the resignation of Mrs Kemi Adeosun.
Before her new appointment, Ahmed was theย Minister of State, Budget and National Planning.
Ahmed alsoย held several critical positions in the past including the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Managing Director, Kaduna Investment Company, to mention but a few.
(NAN)
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