{"id":170770,"date":"2025-07-22T18:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:54:26","slug":"tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Meets Edun Bagudu Ekpo CBN FIRS Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Tinubu on Monday, held a closed-door meeting with key economic officials at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance were the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu; Minister of State for Petroleum (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo; Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Zacch Adedeji.<\/p>\n<p>Though the agenda of the meeting was not officially disclosed, sources at the Presidency described it as a routine briefing session where top officials update the President on developments in their respective sectors.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the FIRS chairman was expected to brief the President on the implementation of four new tax laws recently signed by Tinubu, which are scheduled to take effect in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The CBN governor was also expected to present updates on the country\u2019s fiscal and monetary policy direction, while the finance and budget ministers were expected to provide briefings on the broader economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Bola Tinubu on Monday, held a closed-door meeting with key economic officials at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. In attendance were the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Senator Atiku Bagudu; Minister of State for Petroleum (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo; Governor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":170768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[8565,15935,12945,18126,1243,254,945],"class_list":["post-170770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-bagudu","tag-cbn-gov","tag-edun","tag-ekpo","tag-firs","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tinubu Meets Edun Bagudu Ekpo CBN FIRS Leaders - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu on Monday, held a closed-door meeting with key economic officials at the Presidential Villa, Abuja ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tinubu Meets Edun Bagudu Ekpo CBN FIRS Leaders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Bola Tinubu on Monday, held a closed-door meeting with key economic officials at the Presidential Villa, Abuja ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-22T17:45:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-22T18:54:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753197875.427686.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tinubu Meets Edun Bagudu Ekpo CBN FIRS Leaders\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-22T17:45:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-22T18:54:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753197875.427686.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Bagudu\",\"CBN gov\",\"Edun\",\"Ekpo\",\"FIRS\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/tinubu-meets-edun-bagudu-ekpo-cbn-firs-leaders\",\"name\":\"Tinubu Meets Edun Bagudu Ekpo CBN FIRS Leaders - 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