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Ahmed: My Ministry Will Help AMCON To Recover Debts

Ahmed: My Ministry Will Help AMCON To Recover Debts

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has disclosed the readiness of the Ministry of Finance to assist financially ‘stressed’ Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON), to recover some of the debts owed to its debtors.

Ahmed noted that her ministry has decided to help AMCON by issuing promissory notes to the tune of the debts.

She stated: “But currently, AMCON itself is stressed in the sense that the assets it bought are underperforming. The repayments that they are supposed to be able to make are not happening at the rate at which they should happen. And I understand that …

Cumulative Domestic Debts Of Nigerian States Equals ₦4tr

Cumulative Domestic Debts Of Nigerian States Equals ₦4tr

• Lagos (₦542.231b), Delta (₦223.442b), Rivers (₦225.592b)
• Jigawa (₦38.227b), Anambra (₦33.490b), Yobe (₦26.990b)

Domestic debts of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as at the end of March 2019 was 3.972 trillion, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has disclosed.

The debt profile includes the more than 600 billion bailout fund which President Muhammadu Buhari gave to states in 2016 in the wake of falling oil prices at the international market. The states had complained that they were unable to pay salaries and meet operational costs.

Although Lagos is one of the few states that …