As the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings intensify in Washington DC, the Federal Government has assured that it will continue to showcase the progress made so far in the Nigerian economy in order to attract more foreign investment into the country with a view to improving on the lives of Nigerians
The Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr Wale Edun, gave the assurance in Washington when he granted audience to some newsmen.
He stated that the bold, courageous and strategic reforms of the Nigerian economy embarked upon by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Administration aims not only at stabilising the nation’s economy in order to boost foreign investment into the country but also to provide opportunities for job creation and poverty reduction.
The Minister informed that the economy is moving in the right direction as the policies put in place by the present administration have started slowing down food inflation.
Edun explained that both he, the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance Mrs Lydia Shehu Jafiya, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Olayemi Cardoso, and other key government officials are in Washington DC to showcase the progress made so far in the Nigerian economy.