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The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that the N27.5 trillion 2024 budget presented by President Bola Tinubu to the National Assembly will mark the beginning of the transformation in the country after it is passed into law. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris,  made this known while …

A total of N13,805,814,220 has been earmarked for the upkeep of former presidents, vice presidents, heads of state, Chiefs of General Staff, retired heads of service, permanent secretaries, as well as retired heads of government agencies and parastatals in the 2024 fiscal year.   Former Nigerian leaders expected to benefit …

Renowned economist, Bismarck Rewane, has said that Nigerians are not interested in the budgetary if the prices of basic commodities like rice, bread, and garri don’t go down.   Rewane, the Managing Director of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, made this known on Thursday, November 30. At his maiden budget presentation …

The Peoples Democratic Party has criticized the proposed N27.5 trillion budget for the 2024 fiscal year by President Bola Tinubu to the National Assembly, calling it deceitful, and saying it has no mechanism for economic recovery. President Tinubu, on Wednesday November 29, presented the ‘Budget of Renewed Hope’ before a …

President Bola Tinubu will on Wednesday, November 29, present the 2024 budget to the National Assembly.    The Federal Executive Council earlier today November 27 approved the 2024 budget of N27.5 trillion.   This followed the review of the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework earlier passed by the National Assembly which benchmarked …

Forgive me for sounding a little smug. You would too if you were sitting in stylish lodgings sipping a glass of grand cru minutes away from a prestigious address, the Avenue de Champagne in Épernay, east of Paris. The mile-long avenue is lined with expensive champagne houses, from Moët & …

The House of Representatives has scrapped the N5 billion budgeted for the purchase of a Presidential yacht.    Speaking to newsmen after the passage of the Supplementary budget today, November 2, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Abubakar Bichi, said the lawmakers considered the public interest in scrapping the …

The Senate and the House of Representatives, on Thursday, November 2, passed the N2.17trn 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill after third reading. Before the passage of the bill, the Senate adopted the report of the harmonized sittings of both red and green chambers on the 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill as submitted …

President Bola Tinubu has written to the House of Representatives seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and more.   The Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the 2023 supplementary budget of N2.1 trillion. While speaking to State House correspondents …

As a child I can remember trying to swim out to a wrecked fishing boat off the beach at Camber Sands on the Sussex/Kent border. I stared at the horizon until the whole universe felt blue. It felt like the most exotic place on Earth. The south-east coast clearly made …