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BREAKING: Tinubu appoints Tanimu Yakubu as new budget office DG

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President Bola Tinubu has named Tanimu Yakubu as Director-General of the Federation’s Budget Office.

He was appointed on Thursday after Mr. Ben Akabueze’s tenure expired.

Mr. Yabuku is an accomplished economist and was Chief Economic Adviser to a former President from 2007 to 2010; Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria from 2003 to 2007, and Commissioner of Finance, Budget, and Economic Planning in Katsina State from 1999 to 2003.

The new Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the same institution.

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