The House said that the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, heads of revenue yielding agencies and other related organisations were expected to be at the hearing
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The forum chairman told newsmen that in the past four months, the FAAC meeting had not received the forensic statement of accounts from the Post Mortem committee
The information was contained in a statement issued by the office of the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in Abuja
“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
Reading the communique of the meeting, Amaechi, who was flanked by other members, said: “Members expressed concern in the management of the economy by the Minister of Finance and Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy and called for a strict adherence to the Appropriation Act, 2013, failing which she should resign
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, was said to have been livid about the story
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She said that in 2006, the total petroleum subsidies paid to oil marketing firms amounted to N256 billion and by 2011 the bill for petroleum subsidy payments had risen sharply to nearly N2.10 trillion
“We need to make choices in this country as we are getting to the stage where recurrent expenditures take the bulk of our resources and people get paid but can do no work.
The foreign exchange differential losses which these marketers are also incurring owing to the government snail speed approach to effecting payment is equally mind boggling
Nigeria has enjoyed a growth rate of some seven per cent over five years due to improved economic performance and sustained policy improvements
“N8.27 billion was specifically released to the Federal Ministry of Power for the DISCOs and GENCOs, following approval by President Goodluck Jonathan,” Nwabuikwu said
She said the bonds, which were four times oversubscribed, were improvements on investors’ response to the $500 million bonds floated in 2011
Okonjo-Iweala allegedly said Nigeria’s economy would collapse by September if the National Assembly failed to pass the 2013 budget amendment proposal before it
A communiqué issued by the Technical Sub-Committee of the Federal Account Allocation Committee shows that the distributable statutory revenue for the month of April 2013 was N531.332 billion
“Though the Federal Government quickly denied the economy was in danger, it is now clear that it (government) was being economical with the truth. The clearest indication yet of this choreographed deceit are the contradictory statements credited to the Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in recent times
Now, let me quickly pass to other things. The first thing this country does, of course, is prepare the budget and everybody knows about it; to manage the finances and we have the DG Budget here
This is contained in a statement issued by Yahaya Abubakar, the Coordinating Secretary, Tax Appeal Tribunal, on Monday in Abuja.
The tribunal is established in eight zones namely: Lagos, Abuja, South West (Ibadan), South South (Benin), South East (Enugu) and North Central (Jos) zones
She however expressed concern about various figures being bandied around, insisting that Nigeria’s debt is still at a manageable level with foreign debt at $6.67 billion or about three per cent of GDP
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