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Reps move to delist NECO, UI, 21 MDAs from 2025 budget

The House of Representatives has recommended the removal of the National Examinations Council (NECO), the University of Ibadan and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment from the 2025 budget.
Also affected are 21 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) for their alleged repeated failure to account for previous budgetary allocations and internally generated revenue.
These include the Department of Information and Communication Technology, Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba; Federal College of Education, Yola and Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe.
The rest are the Federal Medical Centre, Bida; Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment; Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria and the Nigeria Police Force.
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The House took the resolution during an extraordinary sitting of its Public Accounts Committee on Thursday in Abuja.
The chairman of the committee, Bamidele Salam, told journalists the decision followed the persistent non-compliance of the MDAs with the committee’s invitations aimed at scrutinising their financial operations.
He said the agencies failed to attend the scheduled hearings and did not provide the necessary documentation requested by the committee.
Salam said: “The Financial Regulation empowers the National Assembly to exclude any ministry, department or agency (MDA) that fails to account for their previous appropriations.
“As such, the listed MDAs should be excluded from the 2025 budget until they appear before this constitutional committee.”
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