Tag: 2021 Budget
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Works, Finance Ministries inflated our 2021 budget by N11bn, FERMA boss tells Reps
The Managing Director of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency FERMA, Mr. Nurudeen Rafindadi on Thursday shocked members of the House of Representatives Committee on FERMA, headed by Rep. Richard Femi Bamise (APC Ekiti) that the Ministries of Finance and Works and Housing inflated their 2021 budget by over N11 billion. A member of the committee,…
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Gov. Ayade presents 2021 budget of N277.7bn
Gov. Ben Ayade of Cross River on Thursday in Calabar presented the 2021 budget of N277.7billion to the State House of Assembly. Ayade, who tagged the budget as “Budget of Blush and Bliss’’, said it was aimed at improving the welfare of residents of the state. While giving a breakdown the budget, the governor explained…
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2021 budget: Reps threaten to delete NERC’s N2bn request for office furniture
…say it lacks contractual details The House of Representatives on Wednesday threatened to delete Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC), N2 billion request in the 2021 budget, to partition and furnish its headquarters in Abuja. Chairman of the Commission, James Momoh disclosed this when he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Power, to defend…
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INEC to begin another round of voter registration early 2021
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will begin another round of voter registration in the first quarter of 2021. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, told newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday after appearing before the Senate Committee on INEC to defend the Commission’s 2021 budget. He said the voter registration exercise will run till…
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Budget defence: Drama as Reps INEC C’ttee Chairman bars commissioners
…disagrees With Members, Holds Defence Behind Closed Doors It was confusion galore on Wednesday during the budget defence session of the House of Representatives, as Chairman on Electoral matters members bars INEC commissioners from its proceedings. Members of the Committee also disagreed with their chairman on the modalility she adopted in engaging the Chairman of…
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Hungary sets to throw Nigeria’s ambassador from mission house in Budapest
Authorities in Hungary are set to throw Nigeria’s ambassador to Hungary, Dr. (Mrs) Eniola Olaitan Ajayi from the mission house, the chancery building in Budapest. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Godfrey Onyeama made this known while defending the ministry’s 2021 budget at the House of Representatives on Tuesday in Abuja. He said the ambassador…
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2021 Budget Defence: You can’t execute new contracts next year, Reps tell TCN
…insists old ones should be completed …MD tells C’ttee new contracts from higher authority The House of Representatives Committee on Power on Tuesday told the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to discard all new projects captured in the 2021 Budget estimates until all old ones are completed. The Committee on Power took this resolution in…
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2021 Budget Defence: You must remit 25% of IGR or no deal, Reps Cttee tells MDAs
…turn down proposals by defaulting agencies The House of Representatives has declared that revenue generating agencies of government must remit the correct amount of their internally generated revenues which is 25 percent as stipulated by extant laws into the federation account. TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports that the House made the declaration while attending to MDAs defending…
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Okowa presents N378.48bn Budget of Recovery for 2021
Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, on Tuesday, presented the Appropriation Bill of N378.48 billion for 2021 to the state’s House of Assembly for consideration. Christened “Budget of Recovery’’, the governor told the lawmakers that the Bill was made up of N207.52 billion for Capital Expenditure and N171.32 billion for Recurrent Expenditure. He said that…
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Reasons to dismiss the 2021 Budget as a joke (Part II), By Dele Sobowale
It has been necessary to bring back the summary of the 2021 Budget provided last week for speedy recollection. The first part of this series focussed on the, once again, unrealistic N13.1 trillion expenditure projected. Since, “Even God cannot change the past” (Agathon, 447-401 BC) and perhaps some of the present, it is a…