Laolu Akande, the media aide to the Vice President, who spoke with State House Correspondents in Abuja yesterday, made the declaration. He said: “The budget for 2016 which has been submitted to the National […]
The budget defence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, on Thursday, ended in a stalemate over controversial allocations to the ministry. There are proposals of N1.07 […]
Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, on Wednesday, declared to the Senate Committee on works that his ministry’s was different from the norm. Appealing to the committee not to tamper with the proposed […]
Former head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, has kicked the rogue 2016 budget that has been trailed by controversy. Babangida was particularly miffed by the provisions for rent for the presidential villa, and the huge […]
Days after the Senate Committee on Higher Education raised an alarm over a N10 billion discovered in the Ministry of Education’s 2016 budget, the Chairman of the committee, Sen. Binta Masi Garba, says that […]
The National Assembly, on Tuesday said the Feb. 25 deadline it set for the passage of the 2016 Appropriation Bill was no longer realistic because the document is full of errors. The […]
The 2016 Appropriation Bill on Tuesday passed the second reading in the House of Representatives in Abuja. The bill, which was extensively debated by the lawmakers, was referred to the Committee on Appropriation and its […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has formally sent amendments to the 2016 budget to the National Assembly. A letter from the president notifying lawmakers of the “corrections” was read Tuesday by the senate president, Bukola Saraki, during […]
More details are emerging about the social protection programmes of the Muhammadu Buhari presidency, including a scheme to grant soft loans to about one million artisans and market women in the proposed 2016 budget. A […]
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