2023 budget: Concerns mount over N8.2 trillion recurrent expenditure
When the 2023 annual budget of N20.51 trillion annual budget was presented to the joint session of the upper and lower legislative Chambers, it...
Buhari presents N20.5tr budget for 2023
President Muhammadu Buhari has put the total budget estimate for 2023 at N20.5 trillion.
Out of this, the government is budgeting about N6 trillion for...
Bayelsa got N30b in September, APC group alleges, calls for Diri’s resignation
YENAGOA - A political support group, the APC Integrity Group, has alleged that the sum of N30b was allocated to Bayelsa State from...
Buhari to present N19.76trn 2023 budget to national assembly on Friday
President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2023 appropriation bill of N19.76 trillion to a joint session of the national assembly on Friday.
This was contained in a...
How 29-Year-Old Is Remodelling Nigeria’s Agric Value Chain With Plastic Crates
Muhammad Yakubu Bubayaro is an agric-tech expert and advocate of the use of new technology by farmers.
how the 29-year-old, through his firm, Bunkasa...
Again, naira crosses N700/$ mark at parallel market
The naira has continued its downward trend, falling to N702 per dollar at the parallel market on Monday.
The figure represents N10 or 1.4 percent...
High food prices threaten households’ incomes …As More families on the brink
Rising costs of food prices and essentials are increasingly reducing households’ disposable incomes and pushing more families to the brink of poverty.
Experts said insecurity...
FAAC shares N954 b to FG, states, LGs
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) has shared a total sum of N954.085 billion Federation Account Revenue to the Federal Government, States and Local...
’12 states owing salaries’ – BudgIT condemns non-payment of workers’ remuneration
BudgIT, a civic-tech organisation, has expressed concerns over the refusal of state governments to pay workers’ salaries.
BudgIT said this in a statement on Thursday signed...
Raise VAT, pay off older civil servants… governors advise FG on averting economic crisis
Nigerian governors have asked the federal government to raise value-added tax (VAT) to 15 percent and offer public workers older than 50 years a...