Tag: Budget Padding
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How N3trn budget padding, N500m “awarded” ranking Senators is unsettling NASS
The National Assembly (NASS) has been rattled by an allegation of padding the 2024 budget by over N3 trillion and an alleged N500 million awarded to high-ranking lawmakers.
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Presidency reacts to Ningi’s claim on budget padding
The Presidency has described as false, the claim by Sen. Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi Central) over the padding of the 2024 budget. This is contained in a statement by Mr Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, in Abuja.
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Nothing like budget padding in Nigeria – Senator Omisore
Sen. Iyiola Omisore (APC- Osun) says there’s nothing like budget padding, as it in the responsibility of the National Assembly to approve the yearly budget of the executive.
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Anambra gov, Soludo reacts to budget padding allegation
Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has dismissed allegations of budget padding for some projects by margins as wide as 300 percent in some ministries This is contained in a statement by his Press Secretary, Christian Aburime, on Thursday. Reacting to an article titled, ” Budget padding scandal hits Anambra State Government”, Soludo said ”criminals” of…
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Budget padding: You don’t have monopoly of gutter language, Dogara blasts Tinubu
…Says only the ignorant with dubious academic certificates will say the maker of a document has padded the document that only he can constitutionally make The Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara on Tuesday responded to allegations by a national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) that he (Dogara) in collaboration…
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Budget Padding: Court mandates Buhari to order prosecution of indicted lawmakers
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos in a landmark judgement has ordered President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently instruct security and anti-corruption agencies to forward to him reports of their investigations into allegations of padding and stealing of some N481 billion from the 2016 budget by some principal officers of the National Assembly.” The court…
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Budget padding allegations: EFCC invites Jibrin
The suspended former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin, has been invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Jibrin’s invitation is based on his allegations on budget padding against the leadership of the House and to answer questions concerning money looted through padding in the 2016 budget.…