The National Assembly on Monday at a special plenary session passed the 2021 Budget totalling N13.588 trillion, N505 billion higher than the proposed figures presented by President Muhammadu Buhari. The President had on October 5, 2020 submitted a budget termed ‘budget of economic recovery and resilience’ of N13.082 trillion to a joint session of the…
By Njamanze Fidel Chairman of the Delta State House of Assembly Committee on Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Hon. Dennis Omovie has said the State House of Assembly is not aware of the existence of DESOPADEC budget for 2016. He also described as laughable reports that the speaker has already signed the…
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday adjourned till Wednesday deliberations on report of the 2016 Appropriations Bill presented today on the floor of the Senate by Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Danjuma Goje. The red chamber of the National Assembly majorly postponed the plenary to honour late Hon Musa Baba Onwana of Nasarawa/Toto…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State presented a budget proposal of N327.68 billion to the State House of Assembly on Wednesday for the 2015 financial year. The governor, addressing the state lawmakers at their hollowed chamber in Asaba, the state capital, explained that the budget is made up of N161.6 billion as recurrent expenditure and…