The unending frosty relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly may deepen following renewed pressure on the former by the latter to as a matter...
It was almost a war of words as a major shortfall in the 2016 budget was noticed on Tuesday by the joint National Assembly Committee on...
Nigeria’s N1.12 trillion deficit in the 2016 budget, supposed to be largely financed through international credit agencies, including IMF, World Bank and African Development Bank (AfDB),...
The March 8 deadline set by the Senate for the passage of 2017 budget is no longer feasible, as the chairmen of the sub-committee on the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday vowed that the appropriation bill for 2017 fiscal year will not be tampered with or padded, as happened to the 2016...
Finally, President Muhammadu Buhari has admitted that the 2016 budget contained distortions with a “series of rogue projects and figures injected into it”. He however vowed...
Two months to the end of the year, the Cross River State House of Assembly has reduced the state’s 2016 budget from N303 billion to N259.1...
THE House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education yesterday queried the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, over pre-budgetary spending which violated the Fiscal Responsibility Act. The...
