• Senate approves NDDC’s 2020 Budget The two chambers of the National Assembly have passed the 2021 Budget of the Federal Government, after ten weeks and four days. The ‘Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience’ passed by the Senate, is thirteen point five-eight-eight trillion naira. The amount is over five hundred and five billion naira more than…
Members of the House of Representatives have reacted differently to the failure by President MUHAMMADU BUHARI to respond to their summons. Some members want the House to delay consideration of the 2021 Budget until an apology is received from the President, while others said the President had not done anything wrong. When the House of Representatives resumed…
Oyo State Governor, SEYI MAKINDE, has presented the 2021 Budget of two hundred and sixty-six point six billion naira to the House of Assembly for consideration and approval. The state government intends to spend one hundred and thirty-six billion naira on recurrent expenditure, while one hundred and thirty billion naira will go into capital expenditure. In his…
Lagos State Governor, BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU, has presented a budget of one point one-five-five trillion naira for 2021. Governor SANWO-OLU made the presentation of the “Budget of Rekindled Hope” before a special session of the Lagos State House of Assembly. During his presentation; Governor SANWO-OLU also announced his intention to stop the payment of pensions to former governors…
The House of Representatives Committee on Aviation turned back the Minister of Aviation, Senator HADI SIRIKA, when he appeared for budget defence. Members of the House Committee took the decision because HADI SIRIKA failed to present details of the 2021 budget of the Aviation Ministry at the time it was requested. Chairman of the committee, NNOLIM NNAJI,…
The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs says it will approve the one point three billion naira proposed for the State House Clinic in the 2021 Budget. However; the Senate Committee want the money to be spent on providing the right equipment so that President MUHAMMADU BUHARI and his top officials will not have to…