Mr. Ahmad Zakari, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Infrastructures, says the large chunk of the proposed supplementary budget of N982 billion has been designated for defence capabilities. Zakari said this on Thursday at the 11th National Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Institution of Space Engineers (NISE) in Abuja. The […]
The Kogi House of Assembly has approved a supplementary budget of N30.014 billion for the state government to meet the developmental needs of the state. The approval followed to third and final reading of the supplementary budget after a Clause-by-Clause consideration at Thursday plenary sitting in Lokoja. Muktar Bajeh, the House Chief Whip acting as […]
Governor of Ekiti state, Kayode Fayemi on Monday signed the N91.1 billion 2020 supplementary budget passed by the state House of Assembly into law. The governor said he had to slash the initial N124.7 billion budget earlier passed and signed in December, 2019 before it was reduced by N33 billion owing to the slump in […]
…Say it’s wrong to divert private sector donations for particular purpose to fund budget The Federal Government has been cautioned on the proposed plan to use Coronavirus donations from national and intertinational bodies to fund the 2020 Supplementary Budget. Recall that the Federal Government had on Wednesday disclosed that it will utilise private sector COVID-19 […]
The Nasarawa state House of Assembly on Wednesday passed a supplementary budget of N4.67 billion for the 2019 fiscal year. Speaker of the House, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi, announced the passage of the budget after a motion sponsored by the Majority Leader of the House, Alhaji Tanko Tunga was passed. Abdullahi urged the executive to ensure […]
The Edo State House of Assembly on Monday in Benin City, passed into law, t N10,874,000,000 Supplementary Budget for the year 2018 fiscal year, and not ‘N160 extra budget’ billion as erroneously reported by some of Nigeria’s newspapers on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. With the N10,874,000,000 supplementary budget passed into law by the Edo State […]
The Ekiti state House of Assembly on Thursday, September 13, approved the N10 billion supplementary appropriation presented to it by the Governor, Ayodele Fayose. At the closed-door sitting, Speaker Kola Oluwawole and 13 other lawmakers were said to have examined the proposal and passed it within an hour. The appropriation bill forwarded to the House […]
…To pass supplementary budget, virement The House of Representatives Deputy Speaker, Hon Yusuff Lasun, on Thursday, disclosed that the National Assembly would reconvene next Tuesday to consider and approve President Muhammadu Buhari’s supplementary budget and virement request. Lasun made this known while answering questions from journalists at a press briefing by the All Progressives Congress […]
…President seeks lawmakers’ approval of N242bn for 2019 polls …Dogara laments mystery surrounding recovered loots …NECA decries N2.2trn debt service provision in 2018 Budget Controversies have continued to trail the 2018 budget as President Muhammad Buhari on Tuesday requested the National Assembly to approve through virement and supplementary, a total sum of N 228,854,008,215 to […]