Tag: Budget Padding
Basketmouth queries lawmakers over budget paddling
Basketmouth questioned if the Nigerian Senate had ever done anything in favour of the masses besides padding budgets.
Alleged budget padding: PDP calls for independent investigation
The Senate had on Tuesday suspended Ningi for three months after he alleged that the 2024 budget was padded with…
Revealed: Nigerian ministries, agencies padded 2021 budget with N300bn
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has revealed that Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) padded the…
Budget padding: CSO tasks National Assembly on diligent scrutiny
Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has called on the National Assembly to diligently scrutinise the…
Buhari’s 2018 budget filled with inaccuracies, padding – Senators
Members of the Senate on Tuesday lamented that the 2018 Appropriation Bill presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu…
Budget padding: EFCC invites Jibrin
The suspended former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin, has been invited by the…
House of Rep to investigate budget padding allegations
The House of Representatives on Wednesday resolved to conduct an investigation into the allegations of tampering with the 2016 budget…
CSOs protest in Lagos over budget padding
A coalition of over 30 Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, on Monday took to the streets of Lagos to protest against…
Budget Padding: It’s a family affair – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) said it would not sanction House of Representatives Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara, or Rep. Abdulmumuni…
There’s nothing like budget padding – Ex-Reps Spokesman
The Spokesman of House of Representatives in the Sixth Assembly, Eseme Eyibo, has said that there is nothing like budget…
Budget Padding: NANS tells Dogara to step aside
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS (Joint Campus Committee), Ogun State has called on the Speaker of…
Budget padding: I’m not working against Dogara-Gbajabiamila
The Majority leader of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has rejected allegation that he was behind the move by…
Budget padding: 15 questions Falana must answer
By Rep.Linus Okorie Dear Mr Femi Falana, SAN, I monitored your opinions on July 31, 2016 via Channels Television on…
APC chieftain warns NASS over budget padding
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Lanre Rasak has warned the National Assembly against toying with the…
SERAP drags House of Reps to UN over budget padding
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an urgent appeal to Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme…
Budget Padding: Buhari vows to punish culprits
President Muhammadu Buhari vowed late Tuesday in Riyadh that all those involved in the “padding” of the 2016 National Budget…