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Ooni Of Ife Says Women Have Potential To Lead Nigeria

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, has said that women can rise to be president of Nigeria because they have the strengths and potential of good leadership.

 

The Ooni spoke at the opening session of the second edition of “Queen Moremi, the Musical, Reloaded” late on Tuesday at the  Lagos Continental Hotels in Lagos.

 

According to him, we should try to uplift the position of women because they have a lot to offer the society.

 

He noted that there were lots of God-given talents in  women, which were demonstrated through the heroic deeds  of Queen Moremi …

Ahmed: FG Optimising Revenue Mobilisation Potential

Ahmed: FG Optimising Revenue Mobilisation Potential

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, has said the federal government will optimise the country’s potential in revenue mobilisation in 2020.

Ahmed said this in an interview with journalists at the ongoing IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington DC.

According to her, budgeting is supposed to be based on taxes that a country is able to generate.

“It is an anomaly for us in Nigeria that our budgets have not been focusing on revenue. What we are trying to do in 2020 is to harness the full potential of revenue mobilisation. The only increase …