The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Zakari Mohammed (APC-Kwara), disclosed this at a news conference on Thursday in Abuja
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The assembly raised the capital expenditure from N67.4 billion to N67.8 billion, while the recurrent expenditure was re-adjusted from N35.4 billion to N35 billion
The position of the caucus was made known by the Minority Leader of the House, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, at a news conference in Abuja
The senators said the continued application of foreign economic theories to the Nigerian situation was not yielding the desired result
The legislator said that the common man had not benefitted adequately from previous budgets in the country
The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, made the announcement while reading a letter from the Senate Leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, to the effect that the 2014 Budget required urgent passage
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said on Thursday night that with the anti-people directives, Nigerians can now see that the PDP was not crying wolf when it alerted that the APC does not mean well for the nation
Okonjo-Iweala, who is the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, said this at the public presentation of the 2014 budget in Abuja on Monday
“As a result, there is no budget to be implemented in the country since we did not, within the life time of that budget, amend it to extend its life span beyond December 31, 2013
I assure you that our administration remains fully committed to the progressive development of our country and the consolidation of peace, unity and democratic governance in our fatherland. Despite several continuing domestic and global challenges, for us in Nigeria, the year 2013 witnessed many positive developments which we will strive to build upon in 2014
Jonathan said the 2014 Budget, which is before the National Assembly, would seek to consolidate on the 2013 Budget that made job creation its focus
“Some of the MDAs are not through with their reports and the committee has written to them and they promised to come with the reports,” Obasa said
The governor had on December 10 presented to the Assembly a budget proposal of N103.882 Billion, 51.8 per cent (N52,776,226,693.19) of which is to be spent on capital projects while 48.2 per cent (N50,106,166,739.81) of the budget is earmarked for recurrent expenditure
“The President has also informed both chambers of National Assembly that the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance will lay the 2014 budget
Tagged: “Budget of Renewed Hope,” which is aimed at taking the state to the next level, the budget is N5.088 billion higher than the 2013, budget, which stood at N154,125 billion
Report reaching The Eagle Online says the President is insisting on using the $74 per barrel benchmark for the budget, hence his decision to call off the presentation until when the lawmakers are ready to agree to his proposal
President Goodluck Jonathan was initially billed to present the 2014 budget to the Joint Session of the National Assembly on Tuesday but it will now come up on November 19, 2013
The Chairman of the committee, Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP-Bauchi), said the incident was an attempt to undermine the committee and would not be condoned
“I thank the distinguished senators for the constancy of their support, please accept the assurances of my highest consideration
“But it is true, we will have what I call a very prudent budget because Nigeria is living in a world and global environment, therefore, we have to watch it