The Senate on Tuesday, extended the implementation of the 2021 budget to May 31 from the earlier projected date of March 31. The extension followed the...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday requested the Senate’s approval for the virement of N276.7 billion to fund expenditures in the 2021 budget. In a letter addressed...
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday approved the state’s amended 2021 budget of N1.25 trillion. The state’s Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had in September requested...
The Federal government has announced eight successful winners from a pool of 38 bidders as transaction advisers for the sale of it’s $6.2 billion Eurobond. Eurobond...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State has cautioned the governor of the state, Okezie Ikpeazu, not to run the state as a hamlet, where...
The Senate on Wednesday approved N216.64 billion as the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) budget for the 2021 fiscal year. The upper legislative chamber’s approval followed...
The Federal Government is to pay the sum of N71.15 billion as counterpart funding for six rail projects that will connect all regions of the country...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Tuesday the upper legislative chamber would not fight President Muhammadu Buhari over the worsening insecurity in Nigeria to please...
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq of Kwara, has increased the state’s 2021 budget from N123 billion to N134.6 billion. The governor presented the reviewed budget...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday charged the government’s revenue-generating agencies to work hard and meet their targets in 2021. The president, according to a statement titled:...
The 2021 federal budget passed by the National Assembly has been signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari signed the Appropriation Bill of N13,588,027,886,175...
The 2021 federal budget passed by the National Assembly has been signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari signed the Appropriation Bill of N13,588,027,886,175...
The Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, on Wednesday signed the state’s 2021 budget of N281.7billion. The governor presented the spending proposal tagged: “Budget of Bliss...
The Ogun State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the state’s 2021 budget of N338.6billion. However, the Assembly made slight adjustments in recurrent and capital expenditures...
The National Assembly on Monday transmitted the 2021 budget of N13.5trillion to President Muhammadu Buhari. The National Assembly passed the 2021 budget on December 21. The Federal...
The Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, on Saturday signed the state’s 2021 budget of N140 billion. In his address at the signing ceremony, the governor said...
The Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, on Wednesday signed the state’s 2021 budget of N286.6 billion. He commended the State House of Assembly for the expeditious...
Nigeria’s humongous external debt servicing bill is standing in the way of moves by government to expand the economy, the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) has...
The Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Tuesday signed the state’s 2021 budget of N123 billion. He also ascribed the state’s infrastructural transformation to the support...
The Sokoto State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the state’s 2021 budget of N176.7 billion. The passage of the budget followed the adoption of a...
The Senate on Monday passed the 2021 budget of N13.5trillion. The budget was predicated on an oil benchmark of $40 per barrel. In the budget, N3.324trillion...
The Nigerian Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has said that the federal lawmakers would hold a special session on Monday, December 21, to consider and pass the...
Governor Udom Emmanuel, has signed the Akwa Ibom State, 2021 budget proposal of N456.2 billion into law. Emmanuel who signed the 2021 budget tagged “Budget of...
The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, on Thursday presented the 2021 budget proposal of N145 billion to the state House of Assembly for approval. In his...
The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday signed the state’s 2021 budget of N246 billion after its passage by the state House of Assembly. The...
The Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, on Monday presented a 2021 budget proposal of N131.8 billion to the State House of Assembly for consideration. Ikpeazu, who...
One hundred and twelve (112) Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have requested N21 billion for computer software acquisition in the 2021 budget, pushing Nigeria’s total spend...
Governors of states in the North-East region on Friday rejected the 2021 budget proposal of the Federal Government over what it called the paltry allocation of...
The Gombe State government has proposed a budget estimate of N116.3 billion for the 2021 fiscal year. The state’s Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Mr....
The speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has directed a number of standing committees to submit their reports on the proposed 2021 budget to...
The House of Representatives on Monday declared that the 2021 budget prepared and presented by President Muhammadu Buhari is incapable of lifting Nigeria from the current...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, said on Friday the National Assembly is doing everything within its power to ensure the passage of the 2021 Budget by...
The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, has presented the sum of N112.92 billion as 2021 budget proposal to the State House of Assembly for consideration...
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday appealed to the National Assembly to set aside funds for the rebuilding of the state in the 2021 budget....
The House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary on Monday rejected the N110 billion allocations to the judiciary in the 2021 Budget. The Chairman of the committee,...
The Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong has presented a budget proposal of N133.4 billion to the state Assembly for year 2021. Lalong who presented the...
The Federal Government on Sunday said that it will focus on the completion of ongoing road and bridge projects in the country instead of beginning new...
The Federal Roads Maintance Agency (FERMA) on Thursday said it has no hand in the N11 billion padding of its 2021 budget proposal before the National...
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, said on Thursday that the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe may affect the 2021...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday presented a budget of N29,861,694,947 billion to the National Assembly for its operations in 2021. A breakdown...
The Director-General of Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Umar Radda, has accused state governments of frustrating efforts to create more wealth for...
The Senate Committee on Power has querried the allocation of 20 power projects for Lau Local Government Area of Taraba State in the 2021 budget of...
The House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Tuesday said he would not endorse the 2021 budget if it failed to make provision for compensation for...
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has warned that any ministry that failed to defend its 2021 budget by the first week of November should forget about...
The Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has had his position on President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2021 budget proposal seriously opposed by many of his colleagues. On Tuesday,...
Nigerian government’s wage bill climbed by 150 per cent in the five-year period between 2015 and 2020, Minister of Finance Zainab Ahmed said Tuesday at the...
The Senate on Tuesday began debate on the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N13.08 trillion. President Muhammadu Buhari presented the proposed 2021 appropriation bill before a joint...
Budget lamentations On October 8, President Muhammadu Buhari disclosed that revenue generation to fund annual budgets has been the greatest challenge of his presidency. Addressing a...
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has picked holes in the 2021 Appropriation Bill presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday. The president presented the 2021 budget...
Revenue mobilisation remains the biggest challenge to funding annual budgets in the country including the proposed 2021 budget just presented to the National Assembly, President Muhammadu...