Tag: 2021 Budget
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Sanwo-Olu Signs 2021 ₦1.16trn Budget Into Law
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Sanwo-Olu has signed into law the 2021 budget of ₦1.55trn, noting that his administration will continue its work of rebuilding the state. Sanwo-Olu, show signed the budget on Thursday reiterated the government’s commitment in advancing economic growth, and expanding opportunities for residents of the state to flourish despite the economic challenges…
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JUST IN: Buhari Signs 2021 Budget, Finance Bill Into Law
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed the 2021 budget and the finance bill into law at the Council Chambers of the State House in Abuja. This comes ten days after both chambers of the National Assembly passed the N13.5trn budget and three days after it was transmitted to the President for assent. President Buhari presented…
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Kaduna Govt to spend N2.8bn on water, sanitation, hygiene in 2021
The Kaduna State Government has earmarked N2.8bn to be spent on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) interventions in 2021 under its Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency. The amount is contained in the 2021 budget approved document on Tuesday. The document also showed that N1.4 billion was earmarked as a marching grant for Partnership for…
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Deltans will have cause to celebrate when I leave office by 2023 – Okowa
Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has said the people of his State would have every reason to celebrate by 2023 when he would be out of office. Okowa stated this during the signing into law of the State’s 2021 Appropriation Bill, giving assurance that the state government would strive to recover from the economic challenges…
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Nigeria needs N400b yearly to fix roads – Senate
THE Senate has said Nigeria needs N400 billion for the maintenance of 35,000 kilometers of Federal roads across the country. It described the N38 billion earmarked for road maintenance in the 2021 budget estimates as paltry compared to the serious maintenance required on the nation’s Federal roads. This is even as the National Assembly Joint…
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Recession: No plan to review 2021 spending estimates, says Buhari’s finance minister
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, yesterday in Abuja, said there is no plan to review the 2021 budget currently before the National Assembly. She has also allayed the fears of federal civil servants that the country’s entering into recession might stall salary payments of workers. Briefing journalists after the…
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Lawan reveals when NASS will pass Nigeria’s 2021 budget
The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan says the National Assembly will pass the 2021 budget of N13. 08 trillion by the second week of December. Lawan made this known while declaring open a retreat for members of National Assembly Management and National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) in Abuja on Friday. The Senate had in…
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Delta Assembly passes N384bn appropriation bill for 2021
The Delta State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the 2021 Appropriation Bill of N384 billion. The passage followed a report presented by the Deputy Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, Mr Festus Okoh, to the lawmakers during the plenary in Asaba. Presenting the report, Okoh said that the amount was made up of N173 billion…
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Tinubu reacts over Sanwo-Olu’s plan to strip him of pension packages
Former Governor of Lagos State, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reacted over the plan of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to repeal the State’s pension law that gives pension packages to former governors and their deputies. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Tinubu reacted to the development on Wednesday while congratulating Governor Sanwo-Olu for the presentation of the State 2021…
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Minister calls out Wike in controversial budget defence moment
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajia Sadiya Farouk has said Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike refused to collect federal government palliatives for his people. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Farouk made the statement during a controversial moment on Tuesday while defending her ministry’s budget before the House Committee on Internally Displaced Persons…