Barely two months after the shelf life of the 2017 budget ended, details of the capital component amounting to about N1.58t have not been tidied yet...
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has announced that the Federal Government released a total of N1.6 trillion (N1,580,270,755,084.44) capital cost to Ministries, Departments and Agencies...
The Federal Government of Nigeria says it will be closing the 2017 fiscal year with spending on capital projects in excess of N1.5 trillion. Kemi Adeosun,...
The frosty relationship between the Presidency and the National Assembly largely accounts for the delayed passage of this year’s budget, The Nation has learnt. Besides, there...
The National Assembly has yet to approve the request by the Presidency to move N135.6bn to other pressing sub-heads in the 2017 budget five months after...
The Senate, on Thursday, descended on the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, over claims that the National Assembly was yet to approve President Muhammadu Buhari’s...
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has stated that the Senate was wrong to accuse the Federal Government of abysmal funding releases for capital projects in...
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Ministry of Finance will soon release the second tranche of the N2.1 trillion capital expenditure for the 2017 budget, THISDAY has...
Following a resolution by Nigeria’s Senate summoning the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, and her colleague, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udoma, over...
Ministers will soon face the Senate, to give their accounts of stewardship on the implementation of the 2017 budget. This revelation was made on Tuesday by...
There are indications that the federal government may be having difficulties funding the capital component of the N7.44 trillion 2017 Budget as none of the ministries,...
The 2017 budget proposal of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) amounting to N234 billion has stalled in the National Assembly. The budget was presented by NPA...
Suspected militants on Monday vandalised the Trans-Niger pipeline in Ogoniland in Rivers State of the Niger Delta, reducing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)’s crude oil production by...
The ongoing face-off over the 2017 budget, may not be over soon, as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu...
By Abdulmumin Jibrin… The Acting President made what, in my opinion, was a harmless remark when he observed that the National Assembly has no powers to...
To fast rack implemtation of the 2017 budget, the Federal Government has concluded plans to release N350 billion, as the first tranche of money for capital...
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday signed the 2017 Budget into law at the State House, Abuja. Photos: Courtesy Presidency RipplesNigeria ….without borders, without...
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday signed the 2017 Appropriation Bill into law. The acting president upon his return from a trip to Anambra State, was...
After about 35 days away from home on a medical trip, and a long spell of silence, President Muhammadu Buhari has spoken out on the controversy...
Apparently worried by the economic costs of non signing of the 2017 Budget into law yet, the Federal Governrnt said it has begun the process of...
Fresh fear has gripped Nigerian policy makers following reports that the United States twin-policy of Green Energy technology and emphasis on consumption of more of shale...
Contrary to popular expectations that the 2017 budget will be signed into law soon, Nigerians may have to wait a little more, as the Presidency has...
On Thursday, June 1st, there were claims that the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo will sign the 2017 Appropriation Bill into law. In the end, it...
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo is to sign the 2017 appropriation bill recently passed by both chambers of the National Assembly tomorrow( Thursday). It was gathered...
More facts have emerged on how late passage of the 2017 Budget Bill led Nigeria into losing about $640.61 million decline in foreign capital inflow in...
The recent declaration by Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, that unless the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of Nigeria rises by 40 per...
A human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Mr Femi Falana has called on the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo not to append his signature to the 2017...
At last the Nigerian parliament, has forwarded the 2017 budget of N7.44 trillion naira ($23.62 billion) to the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo for assent into law....
Not less than N3.8 trillion shortfall in oil production, suffered by Nigeria, from mainly militants’ attacks and oil theft in 2016 could have reduced 2017 budget...
A fresh row may be in the offing between the Executive and the Legislative arms of government over the 2017 budget. This is because the Presidency...
The Senate has expressed concern over the failure of government agencies to submit their 2017 budget proposal to the National Assembly in line with extant law....
The National Assembly on Thursday, passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill. The two chambers approved a total budget of N7,441,175,486,758. The federal legislature also approved $44.50 as...
The Senate, like the House of Representatives has passed the 2017 budget put at N7.44 trillion. President Muhammadu Buhari had on December 14, 2016 formally presented...
The House of Representatives on Thursday passed the 2017 budget of N7. 44 trillion. This was not after a rowdy session over an allocation of N51...
Fresh facts have emerged as to why the passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill was delayed by both chambers of the National Assembly, specifically the Senate....
Six months after President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2017 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly, the Senate, on Tuesday, received a harmonized final...
The National Assembly on Tuesday made an addition of N143 billion to the N7.298 trillion initially proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2017 Appropriation Act....
The Senate, has again, deferred the submission and passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill (budget). Although the submission of the report was included in the day’s...
The much-awaited report of the 2017 Appropriation Bill (budget), may be laid before the Senate in plenary on Thursday and possibly passed into law, Ripples Nigeria...
An unimaginable constitutional crisis is looming over the 2017 Budget if the National Assembly fails to pass the budget this week, sources close to the legislature...
The Nigerian Police has denied removing any document relating to the 2017 Proposed budget during its search of the Abuja home of Sen Danjuma Goje. Goje...
The Senate, on Wednesday, alleged that the Nigeria Police has stolen all relevant documents needed to process and pass the 2017 Budget. Subsequently, the Upper Legislative...
Contrary to its promise that it will pass the 2017 budget on or before the end of March, the Senate, last Tuesday again, failed to pass...
Senators, on Monday, queried the Head of Service of the Federation, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, over what they described as certain frivolous items captured in the 2017...
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has revealed that the proposed rehabilitation work on the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is not captured in either...
The Senate, on Tuesday, revealed that the Red Chamber will not tolerate any padding of the 2017 budget and warned that such moves will not be...
Senators on Wednesday came hard on President Muhammadu Buhari over what they described as the unrealistic projections made in the 2017 budget. The lawmakers who took...
This week, the Senate is set to begin debate on the 2017 appropriations bill submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari. Both chambers of the National Assembly had...
The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has revealed that the Red Chamber will commence debate on the 2017 budget document next week. Saraki who spoke on Tuesday...
In an attempt to avoid the situation that hampered execution of Nigeria’s 2016 budget, the Federal Government has concluded plans to borrow about N450 billion, internally,...