2019 BUDGET

Sen. Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, said the ministry was yet to receive funds for Capital Expenditure in the 2019 budget. Apkabio said this while defending the ministry’s 2020 budget before the House of…

THE N8.92 trillion 2019 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly may already be in trouble of faithful implementation as a fundamental source of its implementation has become apparently unrealisable. Almost five months into the…

THE Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has presented a National Priority Budget of N30,704,674.051 to the Senate Committee on the FCT. Presenting the budget when he led a delegation of senior FCTA officials to the National…

Lagos State chapter of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) on Sunday raised the alarm over the continued feud between the executive, legislative and executive arms of government over the 2019 budget for the state, describing as regrettable the…

THE 2019 appropriation of more than N109 billion on Tuesday scaled through a second reading at the plenary of the Enugu State House of Assembly. The Leader of the House, Mr Ikechukwu Ezeugwu, said that the bill was to service Enugu State…

MR Idris Miliki, Executive Director, Kogi-based Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (CHRCR), on Monday, asked the state’s House of Assembly to cut down frivolous allocations to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).…

The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, has dismissed the 2019 budget appropriation bill submitted to the National Assembly by President MuhammaduBuhari, saying it is hopeless. Senator Saraki, who spoke in his capacity as the…

GOVERNOR Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state on Wednesday proposed a budget of N155.8 billion to Kaduna State House of Assembly for 2019 fiscal year. The budget, tagged budget of continuity, allocates 42.8% to the social sector with…