Tag: 2018 budget
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2018 Budget delay: NASS not responsible – APC lawmaker
A member of House of Representatives, Mr Nicholas Ossai (Delta-APC), on Wednesday urged Nigerians to hold the Executive accountable for the delay in the passage of 2018 Appropriation Bill. He told News Agency of Nigeria Abuja that apart the Bill being late November, 2017, Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) had refused to go before relevant…
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No date for passage of 2018 budget yet – Senate
The Senate on Tuesday said there was no date yet for the passage of the 2018 Budget. Senate’s spokesperson, Sen. Sa’abi Abdullahi, said this while addressing newsmen in Abuja. He said: “The budget process is on and I can’t tell you this is the specific date it is going to end. “We are working very…
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Senate orders 63 FG agencies to submit 2018 budget details in 7 days
As part of moves to fast-track the final passage of the 2018 budget, the Senate on Wednesday asked 63 agencies and parastatals under the Federal Government to submit details of their proposed 2018 budgets within one week or risk sanctions. The Senate at the plenary on Wednesday said while President Muhammadu Buhari had complied with…
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No provision for minimum wage increment in 2018 budget – FG tells NLC
The Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr. Ben Akabueze, says the 2018 budget, at present, cannot accommodate the minimum wage as proposed by the Nigeria Labour Congress. He said the Federal Government might go for a supplementary budget to implement the new minimum wage if approved by the law. Akabueze disclosed this at the…
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Nobody can pad 2018 budget, FG assures Nigerians
The Federal Government on Wednesday assured Nigerians that the 2018 budget cannot be padded. The assurance was given by the Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation (BOF), Mr Ben Akabueze. Akabueze said this at a session on “Enhancing media and CSO’s understanding of current budget issues and reform efforts” on Wednesday in Abuja. He said…
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2018 budget: CSO tells NASS to avoid another budget padding scandal
Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has called on the National Assembly to diligently scrutinise the 2018 Budget to avoid another budget padding scandal in the country. Legal Adviser of the organization, Mr Adesina Oke, made the call while addressing newsmen in Abuja and said that it was imperative to eliminate…
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FG denies smuggling suspicious items in 2018 budget
The Federal Government on Wednesday denied including strange items in the 2018 budget as widely circulated in some quarters. Debunking the claim, the Ministry of Budget and National Planning said there were no expenditure items in the fiscal document that were wasteful in nature. Recall that there have been suggestions that some line items and…
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43 per cent of capital projects in 2018 budget have no impact on Nigerians – BudgiT
A civil society group, BudgIT on Tuesday said about N744.5 billion, or 42.9 per cent of a total N2.65 trillion provision for capital projects in the 2018 Appropriation Bill currently before the National Assembly for approval may have no direct impact on the average Nigerian. The group argued that of the total 9,331 projects included…
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Wike holding Rivers hostage by refusing to make 2018 budget public – APC
The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Friday challenged the state Governor, Nyesom Wike to make the public the state’s 2018 budget. The party gave the call while warning that it won’t accept a repeat of what happened in the past two years where Wike refused to make public the state’s…
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Lagos Assembly to pass 2018 budget in January
The Lagos State House of Assembly is to pass the state’s 2018 Budget Bill before the end of January. The Acting Chairman of the House Committee on Information, Strategy and Publicity, Mr Tunde Braimoh, gave the assurance in an interview in Lagos on Monday. “We are working round the clock; we have denied ourselves holidays,…