Tag: Budget
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Buhari transmits FCT 2023 Budget to Senate
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, transmitted the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) 2023 Budget to the Senate for consideration. Buhari’s request was contained in a letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan and read during plenary.
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Why I chose not to interfere in Assembly crisis – Ekiti Governor, Oyebanji
The newly inaugurated Governor of Ekiti State, Biodun Oyebanji, has revealed reasons he didn’t interfere in the crisis that rocked the state Assembly where Speker Aribisogan was impeached by Assembly Members. Oyebanji noted that he chose not to interfere because he didn’t have a preferred candidate for any leadership position in the house, saying it…
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Aminu Masari weeps as he presents final budget
Gov. Aminu Masari of Katsina State on Tuesday wept while presenting the final budget of his administration to the state House Assembly. The government proposed over N288.63 billion as the state’s budget for the 2023 fiscal year.
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Senate committee summons Minister of Finance over N206bn
The Senate Committee on Special Duties has summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed. The summon is over the insertion of N206 billion inserted into the 2023 budget of the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development.
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Budget Defence: Reps query NPC over N1.9bn spent on summit, conferences
The House of Representatives Committee on Population has queried the National Population Commission (NPC) over N 1.9 billion spent on presidential summit in villa and conferences organised across the country. The committee at the budget defence in Abuja on Wednesday
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Reps C’ttee finally adopts Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ 2023 budget
The House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs at a hearing in Abuja, finally considered and adopted the 2023 budget of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This followed a protracted disagreement between the committee and the ministry over the need to implement sections 10 and 7 of the 2022 Appropriation Act among others. The…
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Okowa presents N561.8bn budget for 2023
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Thursday presented a budget of N561.8 billion for 2023 to the State House of Assembly for approval. Okowa, while presenting the budget, Christened “Budget of Seamless and Stable Transition”, in Asaba, said that the figure showed an increase of 17 per cent over that of 2022.
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2023 budget: KDSG allocates N107.72bn to education sector
The Kaduna State Government has allocated a total of N107.72 billion to the education sector in its proposed 2023 budget pending before the State Assembly for consideration. A copy of the budget document obtained by newsmen in Kaduna on Wednesday showed that the allocation represents 29.1 per cent of the total budget of N370.3 billion…
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Budget: ‘Smuggled’ N37bn worth of projects won’t cause crisis between Executive, NASS – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari started the week under review with an assurance that the over 6,576 new schemes, worth N37 billion ”smuggled” into the 2022 budget by the National Assembly (NASS), would never be a source of crisis between the Executive and Legislature as being reported in some quarters. The Presidency, in a statement issued by…
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