Nigeria, April 24 -- The short answer is yes - but there's a long answer. There is, in fact, more than one inside story about why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu removed the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun.

The newspaper Premium Times published multiple likely versions in a single story. The biggest issue, according to the newspaper, was the poor release of capital funds.

It reported, however, that there were other reasons, from complaints of delayed payments to contractors to criticisms by lawmakers of "zero implementation" of the 2025 capital budget.

Perhaps the most dramatic, according to the newspaper, was the heated exchange between Edun and the President at a December Federal Executive Council ...