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More than 1,500 concerned Nigerians, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE) have filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court to “restrain, prevent and stop the National Assembly Service Commission from paying the incoming members of the 9th National Assembly individually and/or collectively over N4.68 billion as ‘welcome
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An independent budget monitoring agency, BudgIT, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to privatize all government-owned refineries to fully deregulate the petroleum downstream sector.
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To the detriment of socio-economic developments, Nigeria has spent nothing less than N10 trillion on petrol import subsidy between 2006 and 2018. Let it be known: Nigeria is dancing on the edge of a razor blade by continuing its subsidy regime said BudgIT, a civic organisation.
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Following the outcome of the Presidential Election, which returned President Muhammadu Buhari to Aso Rock, BudgIT has called on the Buhari government to assign a higher priority to oil and gas sector reforms in the second phase of the administration.
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Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) – a body that shoulders the task of improving transparency and accountability in the management of revenues from natural resources – released last December the audit report of the oil and gas industry for 2016. Followingly, BudgIT has critically assessed the report and come up with salient analysis, demanding actions from regulatory bodies in the sector.
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An independent survey by civic start-up, BudgIT, has shown that Edo State is not owing workers’ salaries.
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BudgIT, worried that some states are yet to fully offset the outstanding amount owed pensioners and civil servants despite series of bailouts aimed at offsetting the liabilities, recently conducted a survey.
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The frugal allocation of resources by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration in Edo State which has enabled the state to meet her monthly recurrent expenditure commitments has been applauded by independent researchers, BudgIT.
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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.
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BudgIT, has expressed dismay at the reported N1.4 trillion annual subsidy payment on petrol and asked the Federal Government to make a public revelation of the beneficiaries of the payments.
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