By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Commissioner of Budget and Planning, Professor Mustapha Malumbe has charged all accounting and finance officers in the state to operate strictly within the bounds of the approved budget in order to achieve the set objectives of the 2024 budget Prof....
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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, set aside the Rivers’ N800 billion budget passed by five members of the house led by the Edison Ehie-led faction. Justice James Omotosho, in a judgment, held that the presentation of the appropriation bill by Gov. Siminalayi Fubara on Dec. 13, 2023...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 20 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas “for unilaterally and arbitrarily increasing the allocation for lawmakers from N197bn to N344bn,...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said that his administration will continue to provide necessary financial support to strengthen the capacity of the state-owned university to rank one of the best in the country. Fubara said this at the 35th convocation of the university in Port Harcourt on...
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara on Thursday signed the state N800 billion 2024 budget into law, barely 24 hours after it was presented to a four-man State House of Assembly for approval. Speaking at the ceremony at the Government House, Port Harcourt, Fubara said that the budget would provide...
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has said over one million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by Boko Haram crisis in the state have so far been resettled by government. Zulum made this known on Wednesday in Maiduguri while presenting the 2024 budget to the state House of Assembly....
The Minister of Defence, Alhaji Abubakar Badaru, has appealed for an increase in the 2024 budget of the ministry over rising cost of operations caused by inflation. Badaru said this at the 2024 budget defence before the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on defence...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on Tuesday presented a budget of N325.3billion for 2024 to the state House of Assembly for approval. Presenting the budget christened ”Budget of Home Run and Finishing Strong”, Obaseki said it was made up of N178 billion capital expenditure and N146 billion recurrent...
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday sought approval of the National Assembly to spend N61.6 billion 2023 supplementary budget. Wile made the appeal when he appeared before the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on FCT at the National Assembly complex...
Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo of Anambra on Tuesday presented N410 billion 2024 budget to the state House of Assembly for approval. Speaking at the ceremony, Soludo said the budget tagged- ‘Changing Gears: the transformation agenda begins’, was aimed at beginning the transformation agenda and implementing a new...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on Tuesday presented a budget of US$3.3 billion regular budget for 2024 to the fifth committee of the UN General Assembly. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fifth Committee of the General Assembly is saddled with the responsibilities for administrative and...
The Federal Government has said that its N15 billion budget for safe school project in the 2023 budget was in the best interest of the country. The National Coordinator, Safe School Initiative (SSI), Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajia Halima Iliya, stated this at a...
By BARBARA KALU, Port-Harcourt – The Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, has cleared the air over the Senate’s probe of its budgets for 2021 and 2022. In a statement of clarification, the NDDC Managing Director urged the public to avoid jumping to...
Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun has signed N138 billion budget for 2023 fiscal year into law. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Ismail Omipidan, on Friday said that the governor signed the bill into law on Thursday night. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the state...
President Muhammadu Buhari has transmitted the 2023 statutory budget of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to the House of Representatives for approval. Buhari also transmitted to the House, the Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal (CCT) and the Constitution of the Federal...
Gov. Nasir El Rufai of Kaduna State on Tuesday presented the 2023 draft budget of N370 billion to the State House of Assembly. The estimates conform with his administration’s 60:40 ratio of capital to recurrent expenditure. It is the eighth and final budget of El-Rufai’s tenure which ends in...
Some senators on Friday, expressed divergent views on the N20.5 trillion Appropriation Bill for 2023. Those who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said it is a bill of sustainability while others said that there were areas the Buhari’s administration needed to address before handing over power...
Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra, has signed the revised budget of N170 billion into law. Soludo said that the budget christened; “Building off from the Blocks”, fell short of N250 billion, estimated as the amount required in building critical infrastructure in the state. Mr Christian Aburime, Press Secretary to...