The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State on Sunday accused Governor Godwin Obaseki of budget padding. In a statement issued by its Assistant Publicity Secretary...
Prof Pat Utomi Sunday claimed he had evidence of budget padding by the National Assembly. Speaking at a Channels TV programme Sunday night, he said members...
Issues of budget padding, and constituency projects have resurfaced, making the news as another circle of budget submission, defence and approval plays out between the executive...
Minister of works and housing, Babatunde Fashola, has responded to a statement by the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) claiming he inflated contracts awarded by his...
The Presidency on Friday said the court judgment on budget padding aligned with the present administration’s posture against corruption. A Federal High Court in Lagos had...
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently instruct security and anti-corruption agencies to forward to him reports of their...
Senate committee on Power, on Monday, questioned the Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Mustapha Baba Shahuru and the Permanent Secretary, Frank Edozie, over...
It is another budget season, and lawmakers from both chambers of the National Assembly, are going to be busy until the budget is passed. In a...
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...
The suspended former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has aligned himself with the scathing remarks of former President Olusegun Obasanjo...
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...
Kiru/Bebeji constituency of Kano state which the former Chairman House committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibril represents, has dragged speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara...
Latter day anti-corruption crusader, Abdulmumin Jibrin, who was suspended for 180 days by the Yakubu Dogara-led House of Representatives, on Monday announced, through a series of...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is intensifying a discreet investigation into the allegations made by the former Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Mr....
Without making it a public issue, the Federal Government has dismissed 22 top civil servants in the country over allegations of padding the 2016 budget This...
Despite the decision of the House of Representatives to suspend Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, a good number of Nigerians have stated that there is a need for...
The embattled former chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, Adbulmumin Jibrin has promised to expose more acts of corruption in the House. Jibrin who...
The hard fighting former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumin Jibrin, Tuesday, revealed that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakybu...
Former Governor of Ebonyi State, Senator Sam Egwu has said that the current economic recession in the country was caused by the recklessness of past leaders...
The House of Representatives has postponed by one week its anticipated resumption, The PUNCH learnt in Abuja on Sunday. This also implies that the expected action...
The crusade embarked upon by the former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriations, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin’s crusade received a boost on Wednesday, when the Presidential Advisory Committee...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has disclosed that it is already investigating the budget padding allegations levelled against the Speaker of the House of...
A new twist has been added to the budget padding allegation rocking the House of Representatives, as the sacked Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations,...
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja and presided over by Justice Okon Abang, on Thursday refused to hear the suit filed by Abdulmumin Jibrin to...
The budget padding allegations against the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of the House, has received the attention...
The sacked Chairmn of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said the lower chamber of the National Assembly is the most corrupt...
There are indications that the Nigeria Police may go tough on the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and three other principal officers of...
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said, Speaker Yakubu Dogara, in his “foolishly” ways, can’t compel him to reveal more lawmakers and members of executive arm involved I the...
The Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Friday, explained why he submitted himself to the police for investigation over allegations of...
There are indications that Federal Government may have started a probe of the N300bn allocated to the National Assembly in the 2014 and 2015 budgets. According...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Presidential Villa Abuja. The Speaker has now met President Buhari...
Majority Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila has joined other principal officers of the House of Representatives, to describes allegation of budget padding by Abdulmumin Jibrin as baseless. This...
By Femi Falana… Last week, Honourable Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker of the House of Representatives arrogantly maintained that he would not subject himself to the investigation...
The Abuja Federal High Court presided over by Justice Okon Abang on Wednesday refused to hear two separate suits filed by Abdulmumin Jibrin over budget padding...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has denied insinuating that he is above the law. Dogara was reacting to what he called misrepresentation...
Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said that he is crying for Nigeria because it has continued to celebrate corrupt people. The former chairman of the House of Representatives’...
Speaker of the House of Representative, Yakubu Dogara has stated that the police cannot meddle in the affairs of the House. According to him, he cannot...
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that the party has no plan to sanction anybody over the raging budget padding allegations rocking the House of...
The planned interaction with the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, by the Special Investigative Panel, SIP, investigating allegations of budget padding did not...
A member of the House of Representatives and Chairman, House Committee on Legislative Compliance, Abiodun Olasupo, has said Nigerian lawmakers were elected to pad the nation’s...
The Presidency on Tuesday, said the budget signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari was not padded. This was stated by the Senior Special Assistant to...
The deputy national Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Segun Oni, has apologised on behalf of the party leadership for its failure to nip...
There are indications that the security agencies have begun investigations into allegations of budget padding in the National Assembly.While the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,...
Acting national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank has described Abdulmumin Jibrin as lacking manners, disrespectful and desperate. He was reacting...
Former Speaker, House of Representatives, Mr Ghali Na’Abba, has said that padding was impossible without the involvement of the executive arm. He therefore called for proper...
House of Representative Chief Whip, Mr. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, has reportedly said that the budget padding allegation, is an issue beyond the All Progressives Congress’ (APC), intervention....
A human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana, has told the All Progressives Congress, APC, not to treat the current allegations of...
House of Representatives members under the aegis of Transparency Group say padding is criminal insertion, demanding that Yakubu Dogara must step down or be disgraced. The...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that he will not resign his position as speaker despite allegations of budget padding. A former...
A group of serving and former members of the House of Representatives have concluded plans to approach the courts for the interpretation of Section 80 (4)...
