Tag: 2017 Budget
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BREAKING: Report on 2017 budget finally laid, printed copies to be out tomorrow
The report 2017 budget was on Tuesday laid by the Chairman of Appropriation Committee, Senator Danjuma Goje. Goje laid the appropriation report at the senate thhis morning and it was seconded by Senator Sonni Ogbuoji. Sp @bukolasaraki says this is the first time the appropriation bill will be presented with details, soft copies will be…
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NASS suspends 2017 budget over police raid on Goje’s home
National Assembly will not pass the 2017 Appropriation Bill soon as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Danjuma Goje, told the upper chamber of the National Assembly on yesterday that the police carted away budget documents when they raided his Abuja home recently. Goje, while raising a point of order at the plenary, lamented…
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We will expend significant share of 2017 budget to developing Northeast – FG
The Federal Government has said it will commit a significant share of the 2017 budget to confront the security and humanitarian situation arising from the Boko Haram terrorism in the Northeast. This was revealed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama on Friday. Onyeama made the remarks at the Oslo Humanitarian Conference on Nigeria…
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2017 budget will clear outstanding allowances of ex-presidents – SGF
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Engr. Babachir David Lawal has disclosed that former presidents will get their outstanding allowances in 2017. He told the Senate on Monday that the payments were captured in the 2017 budget. Lawal spoke when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Federal Character to defend the…
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Senate will reject attempts to pad 2017 budget – Senator Na’Allah
The Deputy Leader of the Senate, Senator Bala Na’Allah, on Tuesday, said the Senate will resist in all totality and firmness, any attempts by whoever to inflate the 2017 budget. TheNewsGuru.com reports that Na’Allah noted that the budget will be worked on in the exact format that it was received from the presidency. Senator Na’Allah…
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Nigerian Senate envisages 7.55 million additional employments
Nigerian Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said Nigeria is set to benefit from additional 7.55 million employments in the coming years. The Senate President made this revelation in his speech addressing the Senate on resumption of duties in Abuja today. TheNewsGuru Senate House correspondence quotes the Senate President Saraki as saying that new National Assembly…
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Nigerian Senate celebrates 117 bills feat
At the resumed sitting of Nigerian Senators for the first time in 2017, the Nigerian lawmakers, lead by Senate President Bukola Saraki, celebrated a total of 117 bills, which, some passed through third, and others passed through second reading in the House within the period of four months in 2016. In his speech to address…
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Senate will give priority to passage of 2017 Budget – Spokesman
The Senate Spokesman, Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, has said that the Senate would place priority on the passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill when it resumes from its three weeks recess. Abdullahi said this in an interview on Monday that the Upper Chamber would live up to its constitutional responsibility in turning out an implementable budget.…
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Gov Wike assures Bonny Kingdom of developmental projects
The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the state government has earmarked several developmental projects for the people of Bonny Kingdom in the 2017 budget. Governor Wike made this declaration on Wednesday during the 20th coronation anniversary of the Natural Ruler and Amanyanabo of Grand Bonny Kingdom, King Edward Asimini William Dappa…
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The dark side of the 2017 budget – Boyo
By Henry Boyo It has sadly become a tradition for annual fiscal plans to be packaged with flowery phrases which elicit the hope of Nigerians for rapid social and economic enhancement, from the implementation of the budget. Regrettably, this promise of Eldorado is never fulfilled, while this hopeless cycle of social distress is unfortunately…