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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Civil Society Organisation, BudgIT, Friday, disclosed extending its Tracka platform to Abia, Bauchi, and the Benue States for citizens’ participation in budget implementation and execution of public infrastructure. This was made known in a statement signed by Communications Associate, BudgIT, Iyanu Fatoba, where it expressed optimism that this gives the
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Data analytics and transparency firm, BudgIT, has called for an urgent reform of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to boost its profitability and reverse the massive losses recorded by some of its subsidiaries.
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT, Enough is Enough (EiE) and 6,721 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court to “restrain, prevent and stop the National Assembly Service Commission from paying or releasing the sum of N5.550 billion budgeted for purchase of luxury cars for principal members of the ninth Senate, and to restrain and stop the Senate from collecting the money until the downward review of the amount proposed by the Senate.”
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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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