The Federal Government on Tuesday maintained that the controversial Lagos-Calabar rail project was included in the 2016 budget presented to the National Assembly for approval. Speaking on the issue on Tuesday, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, said that because of the “controversies surrounding the 2016 budget, it has become necessary…
The Nigerian Senate has called on Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to tender his resignation over the controversial Lagos-Calabar rail project. In a statement issued on Monday by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the upper chamber of the National Assembly also fumed at the way the executive…
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has laughed off speculations that there is a friction between the Executive and the Legislature. This thought came following the controversy generated before the passage of the 2016 budget by the National Assembly last week after several postponements. Mohammed, during his visit to the corporate headquarters of the…
The National Assembly says details of the 2016 budget it recently passed would be ready in the next two weeks. This followed a disclosure by the Presidency that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed to assent the budget because he was waiting for the main document passed by the National Assembly. The Presidency said it must…
The Nigerian Senate has eventually approved the 2016 budget after several weeks of postponement, Aproko247 has confirmed. The 2016 Appropriation Bill was passed on Wednesday by the lawmakers of the upper chamber of the National Assembly. Reports of the N6.07 trillion budget was supposed to be deliberated on yesterday by the Senate but it was…
A last minute flaw has been detected in the 2016 Appropriation Bill, which might dent a huge blow on its planned passage on March 17, 2016 (today). According to reports, the National Assembly found out that the budget has about 25 fresh errors. Also, about N37 billion Items would have to be removed from the…