Tag: 2021 Budget
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2021 Budget: 200 revenue generating govt bodies are inefficient – Lawan
President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan on Thursday said that 200 revenue generating government owned bodies are grossly inefficient. The Senate president made this revelation at the ongoing 2021 budget presentation by President Muhammadu Buhari. Lawan also vowed that the National Assembly will be very thorough in “our jobs as we ensure that the…
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BREAKING: We will pass 2021 Budget on time – Senate President Lawan vows
President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan has vowed that the National Assembly will pass the 2021 Budget on time to sustain the January to December budget cycle. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the Senator Lawan made the vow on Thursday as President Muhammadu Buhari presents the 2021 Budget estimates to the NASS. Lawan recalled that the presentation…
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2021 Budget presentation: Presidential operatives take over NASS
Ahead of today’s budget presentation by President Muhammadu Buhari, presidential security operatives have taken over security apparatus of the National Assembly (NASS) complex. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that in a bid to ensure there are no security hitches during the presentation, presidential security operatives on Thursday took over NASS security apparatuses. TNG noticed that the four…
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2021 Budget is a recipe for corruption – Lawmakers
Barely 24 hours to the presentation of the 2021 budget by President Muhammadu Buhari, some lawmakers in the National Assembly (NASS) have described the proposed budget as a recipe for corruption. The lawmakers who are mainly in the opposition told TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) that there is no need going too far that merely looking at the…
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BREAKING: Buhari to present 2021 Budget October 8
President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2021 Appropriations Bill, being Nigeria’s 2021 Budget proposal before the National Assembly (NASS) on Thursday, 8th October, 2020. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports this is contained in an executive communication read by Senate President Ahmad Lawan on the floor of the Senate during the plenary session of Tuesday. Recall the Federal…
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FEC approves N13.08tr Budget for 2021
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has projected a N13.08 trillion budget for 2021. Disclosing this to State House Correspondents after the weekly virtual FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Minister for Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, also said the oil benchmark has been pegged at $40 per barrel. The…
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JUST IN: Buhari announces date to present 2021 Budget to NASS
President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2021 budget to the joint session of the National Assembly next week. Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Lawan disclosed this on Tuesday during plenary. The senate just resumed from their recess and has immediately swung into action. The upper chamber had been on recess since July, 2020. According to Lawan,…
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FG proposes N12.7tr budget for 2021
The Federal Government has projected N12,658,009,802,283.00 as 2021 budget estimate. The government also projected N5.16trillion as budget deficit for 2021 up from N4.98trillion in the 2020 budget. This is contained in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper (MTEF/FSP) submitted to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday. The Federal Government also…