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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOSmqwfAa5Y?si=gMruVhazY6BRt34U

Wale Edun, Nigeria’s minister of finance and coordinating minister of the economy, has returned to the country after a period abroad, News360 Nigeria reports.

A video circulating on social media captured Edun at Fraser Suites in Abuja, where he was reportedly seen on Sunday.

According to reports, the minister held a closed-door meeting with a Qatari delegation at the hotel, alongside Jumoke Oduwole, the minister for industry, trade, and investment.

Edun was earlier reported to have taken ill and left Abuja for Lagos last Monday via a commercial flight before proceeding abroad to seek medical treatment.

His return appears to mark a resumption of official duties following his recovery.

Last week, Bayo Onanuga, presidential spokesperson, confirmed that the minister was indisposed.

As a result of Edun’s health condition, Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), led Nigeria’s delegation to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meetings in Washington DC, United States.

Meanwhile, the minister was recently seen at the O’DA Art Gallery booth during the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London.

A video circulating on social media showed the minister addressing guests at the gallery.

Onanuga, who also shared the video on X, confirmed that the minister was in the United Kingdom (UK).

“Finance minister Wale Edun visits an art exhibition in the UK. He is in the country for an officially sanctioned few days of rest from the rigours of managing the Nigerian economy,” Onanuga wrote on his X page.

smartec:
Welcome back sir, we are happy to see you

tunwumi:
They have cloned him jooo.

This one is Al waleedun from Saudi Arabia

“We will start creating and distributing fake stories to paint Yoruba and Nigeria in bad light. We need to start the bigotry in full swing. Let Nigeria scatter, we are not interested in good governance.”

— Obidients from you-know-where 🫢

Listen to their space 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/nXBe5aT3mY

— AJE (@Riddwane) February 2, 2025

donrolex:
Are we sure he's okay now? Or he's rushing back, fearing that he will be asked to resign because of his health?

smartec:
Welcome back sir, we are happy to see you.

thisweekng:
The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy Chief Olawale Edun has said the last time Nigeria’s economy looked stable was about a decade ago.

He made this statement during his maiden press conference as Minister of Finance where he outlined President Bola Tinubu’s vision, agenda and strategy for the economy.

He said, “I think as we all know, we are not where we should be. The economy is barely growing above the rate of population growth.

“But it was not always so, and I think in trying to look at the way forward, if we now have a situation of slow growth, double-digit inflation, weak/depreciating exchange rate, as well as security concerns that are resulting in an economy that is not growing and not taking Nigerians out of poverty.

“If we think back to the last time when the economy was stable- when it was growing, when inflation was low, and the interest rate was affordable, that period was about a decade ago. Growth was about 6% in 2013 and 2014.”
Private sector to drive the economy

https://nairametrics.com/2023/09/01/the-last-time-nigerias-economy-was-stable-was-about-a-decade-ago-wale-edun/

anonimi:
World Bank offers Nigeria forex rate advice, as Tinubu eyes N200/Dollar rate

April 23, 2023

The President-elect said he would work with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to *bring down the exchange rate to N200 in his first term.*

“My administration will collaborate with the Central Bank to harmonize the fiscal and monetary policy to achieve immediate stabilization of the value of the naira against the US dollars and other currencies and in the short term, strengthen the naira by boosting the supply of foreign currency and moderating demand.

“The short-term goal is to achieve a naira/dollar rate of 300 naira/US$ and gradually achieve a less than 200 naira rate over the next four years, Tinubu stated.

https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/world-bank-offers-nigeria-forex-rate-advice-as-tinubu-eyes-n200-dollar-rate/?amp

donrolex:
Are we sure he's okay now? Or he's rushing back, fearing that he will be asked to resign because of his health?

tunwumi:
They have cloned him jooo.

This one is Al waleedun from Saudi Arabia

donrolex:
Are we sure he's okay now? Or he's rushing back, fearing that he will be asked to resign because of his health?

JASONjnr:
Why do people find pleasure in destroying other people....

They people who claimed he slumped and was rushed to the hospital nko?

anonimi:
The eyesore on Bourdillon Road
2nd January 2025

Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.

If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.

That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.

https://punchng.com/the-eyesore-on-bourdillon-road/

Judolisco:
I wish him all the best and quick recovery..... Anybody can fall sick.... Both young and old