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FG to back budgets with finance bills henceforth — Finance Minister

On January 17, 20205:25 amIn Businessby Nwafor

The Federal Government has reiterated plans to henceforth back annual budgets with finance bills, according to the Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed.

Bill for Prohibition of Casualisation of Employment passes second reading in Senate

Insecurity: We must go outside budget for funds

On November 7, 20195:13 amIn Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

ABUJA— THE Senate said, yesterday, that there was urgent need to look outside annual budgetary allocation, if the spate of kidnapping, armed banditry and insurgency in the country must come to an end.

Our futile cost-cutting measures

On October 30, 20198:12 amIn Editorial, Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

ONE of the long-identified reasons our annual budgets are unable to improve our capital development at both the Federal and states levels over the years is inadequate funding. The annual budgets allocate roughly 70 per cent to recurrent expenditures while capital needs take about 30 per cent, most of which are not faithfully funded.

Budgets & forecast for SMEs (1)

On May 16, 20198:39 amIn Businessby vanguard

Even though there has been considerable improvement in the appreciation of the peculiar nature of small & medium enterprise, SMEs, in terms of standard operating procedures, SOPs, most banks expect the small business owner to operate a semblance of formalization in their business approach.

BudgIT berates state govts for hiding budgets details

On June 27, 201812:17 amIn Business, Finance, Newsby Urowayino Jeremiah

BudgIT, a civic tech transparency organization has berated state governments for not disclosing details of their 2018 budget. The group also accused the governments of Lagos state and Kwara state of been notoriously opaque in budget disclosures. In a statement titled, “Opaque Nigerian State Budgets”, signed by the Project Manager, BudgIT, Mr. Abayomi Akinbo, the group said that twenty-one states of the federation are yet to publish online their 2018 budget documents for consumption by citizens.

BudgIT decries publising of budgets by only 15 states

On June 26, 20181:18 pmIn Newsby vanguard

BudgIT, a civic tech transparency organisation working on holding government accountable and creating an active citizenry to improve governance is following the non-availability of States fiscal plan and urging Nigerians to demand their States budgets collectively.

What did you with 2016, 2017 budgets, Fayose asks President Buhari

On June 21, 201810:03 pmIn News, Politicsby vanguard

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has said that President Muhammadu Buhari should be ashamed that he signed 2018 budget in June instead of blaming the National Assembly for performing its constitutional duties, asking “The previous budgets that he agreed with the National Assembly, what did he do with them? Where are the impacts of 2016 and 2017 budgets?”

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