2017 budget debate

Former deputy governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Obadiah Mailafia says 20 percent of the currency circulating in the country is fake. Mailafia sated this at the National Assembly on Monday, while delivering a lecture at the public hearing on the 2017 budget. He said it would be...

Nigerian Senate minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio has said that the 2017 budget of President Muhamamdu Buhari-led federal government may end up as a budget of stagnation. Some senators have described the budget as ambiguous while Senator Dino Melaye described Nigeria as a country that...

Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi west senatorial district has said that President Muhamamdu Buhari-led federal government lacked agenda like previous administrations. Senator Melaye stated this on Wednesday while contributing to 2017 budget debate. “Truth be told, the 2017 Budget is...

Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe representing Abia-South Senatorial District in his contribution to the 2017 Budget debate says the more things change the more they remain the same. He described the budget as an outrageous. "We are nation that jokes a lot, we are going in the wrong direction...