Tag: 2016 Budget
2016 Budget: Presidency commends National Assembly
The Presidency on Wednesday commended the National Assembly for passing the 2016 Appropriation Bill. The Special Adviser to the President…
NASS to pass 2016 Budget next week
Contrary to its promise on Wednesday, the National Assembly on Thursday failed to lay the 2016 budget for commencement of…
Senate fails to pass 2016 Budget
The Senate on Wednesday said that the Thursday deadline fixed for passage of the 2016 Appropriation Bill was no longer…
Nigeria: 35% of budget to be spent on debt servicing
Nigeria expects to spend 35 percent of its federal government revenues servicing debt this year, up from 26 percent last…
NASS to pass 2016 budget on March 17
The House of Representatives says the National Assembly will on March 17, pass the 2016 Appropriation Bill totalling N6.08 trillion.…
ASUU decries FG’s paltry allocation to universities in 2016 budget
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Tuesday picked holes in allocation to tertiary institutions in the…
2016 Budget: 10 States investing big in housing projects
The newly appointed administration have estimated a total national budget of N6 trillion and have proposed N433.3 billion to be…
Oshiomhole signs 2016 Budget into Law
Jethro Ibileke/Benin Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole on Tuesday signed the state’s N116.6 billion 2016 Appropriation Bill into law.…
FG admits errors in 2016 budget, perpetrators face punishment
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Nigeria’s Ministry of Budget and National Planning on Tuesday said the errors in the 2016 Budget were due…
Why National Assembly refused to pass 2016 budget
Nigerian lawmakers announced on Tuesday that with the gross distortions and bogus allocations being discovered in many areas of the…
Fayose advises Buhari on 2016 Budget
Eromosele Ebhomele Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State in the western part of Nigeria, on Tuesday asked President Mohammadu Buhari…
2016 Budget: Buhari earmarks N500bn to alleviate poverty
The need to pay attention to the common man and spend the resources of this country on the poor people…
2016 budget is achievable – Udoma
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has assured that the 2016 budget was be achievable…
2016 Budget: Buhari reacts to Tinubu’s comments?
President Muhammadu Buhari appears to have reacted to Senator Remi Tinubu over the inclusion of women in the 2016 budget…
Sokoto Assembly promises speedy passage of 2016 budget
The Chairman, Sokoto State House of Assembly Committee on Finance and Appropriation, Alhaji Bello Yabo, on Friday said the legislature…
PDP Reps fault Buhari’s budget as it passes 2nd redaing
The Appropriation Bill 2016 passed the second reading in the House of Representatives in Abuja on Tuesday. This emanated from…
We’ll ensure full implementation of 2016 budgets – Lagos Govt
Yinka Ogundimu, the Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Finance, has said that the legislature would ensure the…
2016 Budget: Buhari to renovate Aso Villa with N3.9bn
Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe (PDP Abia South) on Wednesday in Abuja, revealed that N3.9billion was allocated for the renovation of Aso…
Abaribe To Senators: This is not a budget of ‘Change’
Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe (PDP Abia South) on Wednesday in Abuja, berated the 2016 budget, stating that, it is not a…
2016 Budget: Buhari allocates N500bn for school feeding
Senator Ahmed Lawan (APC Yobe North) has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari budgeted N500billion for school feeding and social SAFETY…
Why I made changes to 2016 budget – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday explained why corrections had been made to the details of the 2016 budget as presented…
2016 budget will deal with issues of poverty – Osinbajo
Nigeria’s vice president, Prof Yemi Osinbajo has stated categorically that there are specific provisions in the 2016 budget presented to…
Buhari submits corrected version of 2016 budget
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has submitted a corrected version of the 2016 budget to national assembly, a letter read…
Buhari requests withdrawal of 2016 budget to make changes
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has written to parliament requesting the withdrawal of the 2016 budget in order to make changes,…
Saraki accuses Presidency of switching 2016 budget
The farce over the missing 2016 budget continued on Thursday as Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, said that there are…
It’s impossible for 2016 budget to go missing – Ndume
Nigerian Senate Leader, Senator Muhammed Ndume who was alleged to have told his colleagues that the soft and hard copies…
Hard, soft copies of 2016 budget stolen from National Assembly
The hard and soft copies of the 2016 budget documents handed to a joint session of the national assembly by…
Sacked Gov. Ikpeazu presents N96.7bn 2016 budget
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia who was sacked by a Court of Appeal in Owerri today has presented a N96.7billion…
Okorocha presents N102.2bn budget to assembly
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Tuesday presented the 2016 appropriation of N102.2 billion to the state assembly for scrutiny.…
Media Chat: Buhari to speak on lingering fuel scarcity, 2016 budget, others
President Muhammadu Buhari will host his first Presidential Media Chat tomorrow, Wednesday, December 30, 2015, a statement by his media…