•Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has said that the N50.44 billion total allocation to the Ministry of Defence in the 2025 budget proposal is insufficient to address the security needs of the nation. This is as the minister sought the support of the House of […]
•Nigerian Senate The Senate and House of Representatives have resolved to remove the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) from the federal government’s 2025 budget grant, citing concerns over the board’s financial management. Lawmakers argued today that it is unjustifiable for JAMB to remit N4 billion to the federation account while...
•Works Minister David Umahi There is uneasy calm and confusion over the omission of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road from the 2025 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly recently by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The coastal road, one of the signature projects of President Tinubu which has generated a lot of controversy since its comme...
•INEC Chairman, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has rejected the N40 billion earmarked for it in the 2025 budget. Chairman of the Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, rejected the estimate during budget defence before a joint committee session on INEC and Electoral Matters, at the National A...
•Governor Siminalayi Fubara Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has signed the ₦1.1 trillion 2025 Budget into law. Fubara, in a speech after signing the bill into law today, Thursday, January 2, 2025, thanked the Victor Oko-Jumbo-led State Assembly for doing a good job, reports Channels TV. The governor insisted that the only House of As...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate would upon resumption starting January 14, begin investigation of alleged economic sabotage in the petroleum industry, the amendment of the 1999 constitution, and key economic reform initiatives by the President Bola Tinubu led administration. The Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele (APC: Ekiti Central...
•Peter Obi Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) at the 2023 polls, Peter Obi, today tackled the federal government over the “exclusion” of the North Central Development Commission (NCDC) from the 2025 budgetary allocations. He observed that the sum of N2.493 trillion was allocated to five other regional development commissions, whil...
•Tinubu Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the federal government will spend billions of naira on the purchase of computers in the coming year, details of the 2025 national budget proposals have revealed. An analysis of the Appropriation Bill by this paper showed that 20 of the MDAs will purchase computers with N14, 261,940,152, re...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate yesterday said Nigerians should not expect the passage of the N49.7 trillion budget for the 2025 fiscal year before January 31. President Bola Ahned Tinubu had presented a budget of N49.7 trillion to a joint session of the National Assembly on December 18 and asked the lawmakers to expeditiously pass the […]...
•Nigerian Senate Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), Comrade Auwal Ibrahim Musa Rafisanjani, today expressed serious concerns regarding the N49.7 trillion proposed in the 2025 budget proposal, urging the federal government to prioritise transparency, accountability, and alignment with the needs of Nige...
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