WAEC Explains N1.5b Budget For 2020 WASSCE

WAEC Explains N1.5b Budget For 2020 WASSCE

The West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC), said it spent over N1.5 billion to conduct the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).   Head, WAEC National Office in Nigeria, Mr Areghan Patrick, disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at the...
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Experts Laud Early Submission of 2021 budget Proposal

Experts Laud Early Submission of 2021 budget Proposal

Financial experts on Thursday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the early submission of the 2021 budget proposal and called for prompt passage. The experts also called for strict implementation, after its passage. They spoke in separate interviews with ...
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Reps Approve N13.08tri Expenditures, $40 Oil Price Benchmark For 2021

Reps Approve N13.08tri Expenditures, $40 Oil Price Benchmark For 2021

The House of Representatives has approved the Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), the Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP), and put the total government proposed 2021 expenditure at N13.08 trillion. This followed a unanimous adoption of a report presented by the ...
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Water Projects Gulp N18.80b In Katsina

Water Projects Gulp N18.80b In Katsina

Katsina State Government has spent the sum of N18,798,640,116. 83 on the provision of portable drinking water in urban areas of the state since the inception of the administration of Governor  Aminu Masari in 2015.  The State Commissioner for Wa...
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Buhari Directs Release Of 50% Of Capital Expenditure, Signs N10.8tr Revised 2020 Budget

Buhari Directs Release Of 50% Of Capital Expenditure, Signs N10.8tr Revised 2020 Budget

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law the revised N10.8 trillion 2020 budget, and directed the release of at least 50 per cent of the approved 2020 revised capital expenditure to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The News Agency of...
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Kano To Reduce 2020 Budget By 30 Per Cent

Kano To Reduce 2020 Budget By 30 Per Cent

The Kano State Government will reduce 2020 Budget by 30 per cent, Governor. Abduallahi Ganduje has said Ganduje made this known during at an interactive session with Journalists on Monday at the Government House, Kano. He explained that the reduction...
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Seaport Adopts $1.5b Budget For 2020/21

Seaport Adopts $1.5b Budget For 2020/21

The Port of Los Angeles, North America’s leading container seaport, has adopted a $1.5 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2020/21. The port said the budget was based on expectations of slower cargo volumes in the near term and a continued...
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Akwa Ibom Reviews 2020 Budget

Akwa Ibom Reviews 2020 Budget

The Akwa Ibom Government has reviewed its 2020 budget downward in line with the current economic realities occasioned by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world. This was one of the decisions taken at the end of the...
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Kogi Slashes 2020 Budget By N74b

Kogi Slashes 2020 Budget By N74b

The Kogi State Executive Council has slashed the state’s 2020 budget from N176 billion to N102 billion. A statement issued at the end of the council’s weekly meeting in Lokoja on Wednesday said that the budget was slashed by N74...
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Nigeria Suspends Recruitment

Nigeria Suspends Recruitment

As part of measures to address the impacts of Coronavirus on Nigerian economy, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved reduction in the size of the 2020 budget by about N1.5 trillion  The Minister of Finance, Budget and National...
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SEC Nigeria Photo News

SEC Nigeria Photo News

Left to Right: Dr. Suleyman Abdul Ndanusa, Seminar Chairman/ CEO, Global Mandate Consulting Ltd; Mr Bola Onadele-Koko, Chief Executive Officer, FMDQ Group; and Mary Uduk, Ag. Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); at the SEC’s Budget Sem...
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Kano Budgets N30b For Health Sector In 2020

Kano Budgets N30b For Health Sector In 2020

The Kano State Government allocated over N30 billion to the health sector in its 2020 budget proposal presented recently to the State House of Assembly for approval. In a chat with Journalists after he appeared before the Assembly to defend...
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Volkswagen Budgets $66b For Future Car Models

Volkswagen Budgets $66b For Future Car Models

Volkswagen is to plough 60 billion euros ($66 billion) by 2024 into its switch to electric, hybrid and connected vehicles, as automakers around the world rev up electrification plans. The company explained on Friday that the sum is an increase...
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Edo Budgets N177b For 2020

Edo Budgets N177b For 2020

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Wednesday presented a budget of N177 billion for 2020 to the state House of Assembly for approval.  The budget is 3.34 per cent higher than the 2019 figure of N175 billion. The budget has...
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