At a high-level investment summit in France, President Tinubu and Finance Minister Taiwo Oyedele showcased Nigeria’s 11.2% dollar-term GDP growth and committed to quarterly financial publishing.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has held high-level discussions with major global investors in Paris, France, to pitch Nigeria’s economic potential and explain the operational rationale behind his administration’s bold fiscal reforms.
Throughout the engagement, the President emphasized transparency and strict fiscal discipline as the core pillars anchoring the country’s economic restructuring. The meeting served as a strategic platform to reassure the international financial community of Nigeria’s long-term policy consistency, stability, and commitment to removing deep-seated market distortions.
Providing an analytical overview of the country’s recent economic performance, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Taiwo Oyedele, revealed that Nigeria recorded a strong 11.2 per cent GDP growth in dollar terms over the past year. Oyedele noted that this record performance strongly reinforces the federal government’s ambitious trajectory to achieve a $1 trillion economy by the year 2030.
To build institutional trust and enhance accountability, the Finance Minister pledged that the government will begin publishing comprehensive quarterly financial data, stressing that immediate priorities are centered on translating macroeconomic reforms into tangible, positive results for the citizen registry.
In tandem with fiscal updates, the Director General of the Debt Management Office, Mrs. Patience Oniha, assured the gathering of a highly responsible and sustainable approach to sovereign debt financing.
The institutional investor delegation featured prominent global financial firms, including Citibank, France’s Amundi led by Valerie Baudson, BlueCrest, Ninety One, Kirkoswald Capital, Principal Finisterre, and United States-based groups Prudential Global Investment Management (PGIM) and Mesarete Capital.
Several participating financiers commended the transformative nature of the current policies and expressed strong optimism regarding Nigeria’s investment landscape.
Addressing specific inquiries regarding his post-2027 agenda, President Tinubu promised an unwavering commitment to deepening reforms across the oil and gas value chain and stabilizing key macroeconomic indicators to foster inclusive growth.
The President also outlined an aggressive, multi-pronged national security strategy designed to complement economic expansion, highlighting planned structural shifts such as police decentralization and targeted operations to disrupt terrorist financing channels. He concluded by reiterating that diligent policy execution remains paramount to ensuring these strategic macroeconomic shifts translate into lasting domestic benefits.
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