Adedapo Adesanya
By Adedapo Adesanya
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over the first Economic Management Team meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term in office themed Next Level Agenda: Budget Issues.
This was disclosed in a series of tweets from the Senior Special Assistant to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande via his twitter handle – @akandeoj on Wednesday.
He wrote: “VP Osinbajo presiding over the first Economic Mgt Team meeting of President Buhari’s 2nd term, themed Next Level. Agenda: Budget issues”
“In attendance are Ministers: Finance, Budget & National Planning; Industry, Trade & Investment; Information; Works & Housing; Budget & National Planning (State) & Minister of Petroleum (State).
He also mentioned that the meeting had in attendance the Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele; Mr Mele Kyari, the General Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Chairman, Mr Babatunde Fowler.
Others included Director General (DG) Budget Office, Mr Ben Akabueze; DG of the Debt Management Office, Ms Patience Oniha; DG of the National Bureau of Statistics, Dr. Yemi Kale and the Special Adviser Economic Matters, Dr. Adeyemi Dipeolu among others.
Mr Akande noted that the meeting opened with a review of the 2019 Budget implementation.
“Next Level now in full throttle: Nigeria is going higher and we shall deliver prosperity to our people,” he tweeted.
