The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, yesterday disagreed with the Senate Committee on Niger Delta over who could tinker with the budget. The Senate committee had last week raised concern that they, as stakeholders, were not carried along, especially concerning 10 projects that were abandoned in the region.

Despite a yearly allocation for new vehicles, the presidency has claimed that some of them being used for daily operations in the State House are old since they were purchased as far back as 1999.

Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has described the 2020 national budget as pro-people and one aimed at driving development in the states to enhance citizens’ welfare.

The Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Niger Delta Budget Monitoring Group (NDEUMOG), Dr. George-Hill Anthony has appealed to both the federal and state governments to involve civil societies...

Three months after Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, signed the 2019 budget into law, the state’s financial plan is yet to be made available on the Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget’s website.

Five days after taking oath of office, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has signed into law the N873.5 billion passed by the state House of Assembly. The governor said he would implement the budget within seven months, away from the 12 months circle a budget should be. He signed the budget into law alongside three…

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Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has been asked to remove the state Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Hon. Paul Maiwada, as well as re-organise the ministry for effective performance. Participants at a one-day stakeholders’ budget summit by Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, (CHRCR) in partnership with Shehu Musa Yar’ Adua Foundation and support…

The budget office released the 2017 budget implementation report a few weeks ago. It contained, as expected, some numbers on the federal government’s finances. Safe to say the numbers do not look good.

The National Assembly Joint Committee on Electoral Matters has overruled President Muhammadu Buhari’s earlier request that N143, 512,529,455 be vired from capital projects in the 2018 budget to fund the 2019 general elections. The panel instead recommended that the funds be vired from service-wide votes under the Special Intervention Programme (recurrent) to ease consideration and…

There must have been some excitement in some quarters as the much awaited 2018 appropriation bill was signed into law by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government on June 20, with aggregate expenditures of N9.12 trillion.