Zamfara Commissioner for Budget and Economic Planning, Alhaji Abdulmalik Abubakar-Gajam, has said the 2024 Rescue Budget is designed to emancipate the state from shambles and chaotic situations. Abubakar-Gajam made the remark in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of International Youth Day Commemoration on...
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The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has proposed an aggregate expenditure of N1.911 trillion for the 2024 budget, tagged “Budget of Renewed Hope”. The Managing Director of NDDC, Mr Samuel Ogbuku, presented the budget before the House of Representatives Committee on NDDC in Abuja on Tuesday. He said...
By BARBARA KALU, Port Harcourt – The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has explained that the N1trillion credit line being sought by the Commission will be deployed to complete a total of 1,006 legacy projects spread across the region, including roads, bridges, electricity projects, school buildings, hospitals, shore...
Senator Diket Plang (APC/Plateau Central), has said that the National Assembly did not pad the 2024 budget. Plang, a member of the Senate appropriation committee, who stated this on Monday in Jos while interacting with newsmen, said that the National Assembly passed a budget of N28.77 trillion naira....
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Dr Kayode Ajulo, has filed a suit seeking to stop Gov. Similalaye Fubara of Rivers from re-presenting the 2024 budget to the state House of Assembly. The SAN asked the court to stop such a move pending the hearing and determination of...
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Friday passed a total of N2.268 trillion as the 2024 budget size of the state. The House approved the passage of the budget following a unanimous voice by all the lawmakers present at the plenary presided over by the Speaker, Mr...
By VIVIANNE IHEKWEAZU (Lead Writer) – The year 2023 began with much hope and anticipation for the country. It was a year of transition, and every transition brings hope for a brighter future. The presidential elections that took place in February 2023 was tightly fought and left a lot...
Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah has said that this year’s budget of N521.6 will be financed through the internally generated revenue (IGR). Mbah also gave assurance that the budget would be implemented to the letter to address the lingering poverty and hardship occasioned by the subsidy removal. He...
President Bola Tinubu has signed the 2024 Appropriation Bill into law in keeping with his avowed commitment to maintaining a timeous, predictable and efficient budget cycle. Tinubu assented to the bill at the State House on Monday, shortly after returning to Abuja from Lagos. Speaking at...
President Bola Tinubu, on Monday in Abuja, signed the 2024 appropriation bill of N28.78 trillion into law. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Tinubu signed the appropriation bill into law immediately after returning from the Christmas and New Year holidays in Lagos. At the...
Zamfara Governor, Dauda Lawal of Zamfara has signed the state’s 2024 Appropriation Bill of N426.5 billion into law. His media aide, Mr Sulaiman Idris stated on Sunday in Gusau that the governor signed the Appropriation Bill into law on Saturday. The state’s House of Assembly approved the bill on...
The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Rep Abubakar Bitchi, says MDAs have pledged to increase their revenue-base in the 2024 fiscal year in order to fund the budget. Bitchi said this after the House approved the 2024 Budget proposal which was presented before the joint...
A financial expert, Dr Uche Uwaleke says an increase in the size of the 2024 budget by the National Assembly will render the inflation rate projection of 21.4 per cent for 2024 unrealistic. Uwaleke, the Director, Institute of Capital Market Studies at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, said this...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The Cross River State House of Assembly has passed the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N296, 985,631,978.01 into law. Recall that the State Governor, Bassey Otu had on October 26, 2024 presented the budget estimates of 250,564,235,077.05 christened, “The People’s First Budget”...
ActionAid Nigeria (AAN), Small-Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) and other stakeholders in agriculture sector have faulted the 2024 proposed agriculture budget of N362.9 billion. The groups expressed their views at a news joint conference to analyse the proposed 2024 agricultural sector’s budget on Saturday in Abuja....
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Jalingo- Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas has presented 2024 budget of N311, 388, 525, 661. 96 to the state House of Assembly and dedicated the largest portion of the budget to educational sector, with 43,208,278, 849. 29 at (13. 9 percent.) The budget proposal,...
The Minister of The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has asked the National Assembly to approve the N17 billion appropriated for the FCT Administration in the N27.5 trillion 2024 proposed National Budget. Wike made the appeal when he appeared before the Joint Session of the Senate...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has solicited the support of Senate to raise its 2024 budget from N40 billion to N89 billion. The Chairman INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu while defending the 2024 budget on Wednesday in Abuja, said...