NABRO
27 Oct 2019
Despite its avowed commitment to giving accelerated consideration to processing of the 2020 budget proposal, the Senate has run into hitches with its schedule for the exercise.
11 Oct 2019
The Senate yesterday justified the N125 billion proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari as the National Assembly budget for the 2020 fiscal year. The National Assembly has a lot of staff to take care of in both chambers. The number of committees is large too because of the volume of work.
28 Mar 2019
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara yesterday said national budgets may continue to perform poorly until they pass an integrity test where...
24 Dec 2017
The chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Timothy Golu, yesterday, gave insight into why the National Assembly was keen on overriding President Muhammadu Buhari on the National Assembly Budget and Research Office (NABRO) Bill. Buhari is yet to append his signature to the document required to strengthen the budgetary process after…
19 May 2017
The legislators have passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill but not before jerking up the spending limit for the National Assembly from N115billion submitted by the Executive arm of government to N125billion.
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