Chairman, Partners for Electoral Reform, Ezenwa Nwagwu and Executive Director of CISLAC, Auwal Rafsanjani, made the call at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.
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Dr Peter Ozo-Eson, NLC General Secretary, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja.
He said this on Tuesday in Abuja, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
Okezie, the President Progressive Shareholders Association of Nigeria, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Thursday.
Dogara said the 2018 Budget will be laid before both chambers on April 19
The News Agency of Nigeria recalled that the State House of Assembly had on March 15 passed the budget into law.
The governor, however, expressed his commitment to ensure the full and prompt implementation of the budget.
He said this while defending the ministry’s 2018 budget before members of the House of Representatives Committee on Works, in Abuja.
Obasa gave the assurance while commenting on the timely submission of the budget report by Mr Yishawu Gbolahan, the Chairman, House Committee on Budget and Economic Planning, on the 2018 Appropriation Bill.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, made the appeal when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs to defend his 2018 Budget proposal.
Signing the budget at the Government House in Ado Ekiti, Fayose commended the assembly for ensuring its early passage.
Akeredolu said it reflected the collective aspiration of the people of the state, after having consulted widely to incorporate the input of all stakeholders.
The upper chamber also queried why the 2017 Budget had no correlation to the 2018 Budget, insisting the implementation, if passed by January, would be poor because of the size of Nigeria
The Bill has been forwarded to the Committee on Appropriations and its various sub-committees for further consideration and budget defence by the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government
Sagay, who spoke on Friday in Abuja during his committee’s “interaction with stakeholders”, said the Federal Government’s anti-corruption efforts had, so far, been extremely successful
The statement by Akintola reads: “President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday presented an N8.6 trillion budget to the National Assembly (NASS). A major highlight is the percentage allocated to the education sector which is a paltry 7%.
The Budget was presented to a Joint Session of the National Assembly on Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari
Buhari said at the session that with a benchmark of $45 per barrel at an exchange rate of N305 to a dollar in 2018, the budget would consolidate on the achievements of previous budgets to aggressively steer the economy to the path of steady growth
The Senate also affirmed its commitment to the implementation of the North-East Development Commission Act following the assent of President Muhammadu Buhari on October 26, 2017 to the NEDC Bill passed by the National Assembly.
According to the governor: “Government shall reform land administration policy focussing on land enumeration and collections of land charges to boost continuous insufficient federal allocation.”