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For the Keynote Interview at PE
                                                                                                          Summit 2020, our senior partner,
                                                                                                          Dan Agbor, is in conversation with
                                                                                                          Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, the
                                                                                                          Honourable Minister for Finance,
                                                                                                          Budget and National Planning,
                                                                                                          highlighting the impact of federal
                                                                                                          budgets on private sector
                                                                                                          investment and growth, among
                                                                                                          other topical issues around
                                                                                                          monetary and economic policy.

                                                                                                          “The finance bill is the first of its
                                                                                                          kind in the past twenty years in this
                                                                                                          country. It’s more than just the
                                                                                                          increase in VAT. We’re trying to
                                                                                                          ensure that businesses expand and
                                                                                                          end up employing more Nigerians,”
                                                                                                          Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed says, in
                                                                                                          relation to the benefits of the tax
                                                                                                          reforms put forth by the new bill.







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