2019 budget news

Femi Adesina, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, says Atiku Abubakar, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate is ignorant of issues in the petroleum sector. Adesina said this in an article where he criticised the PDP presidential candidate for attacking provisions of the...

The implementation of the 2019 budget presented recently to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to face increasing threats as oil prices dropped further yesterday, nearing their lowest level … Read more via Thisdaylive – http://bit.ly/2EOgE2G Get More Nigeria...

Peter Obi, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says Nigeria’s economy will keep “bleeding” if President Muhammadu Buhari remains in power for another four years. Speaking in Lagos on Saturday, Obi made reference to the 2019 budget Buhari presented to the national...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has come down hard on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over what he described as huge abuse of financial procedures in the running of the state oil … Read more via Thisdaylive –...

Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has punctured some of the claims made by President Muhammadu Buhari during his budget presentation to the joint session of the National Assembly last week.... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria –...

The amount allocated by the federal government for debt servicing is higher than the projected capital expenditure spending. An analysis of the budget figures by TheCable also showed that recurrent expenditure has also almost doubled since 2016. In the proposed 2019 budget, N2.140 trillion was...

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has described the 2019 budget proposal as hopeless. The appropriation bill was presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday. Saraki said the budget proposal, as presented by President Buhari, failed to...

President Muhammadu Buhari was interrupted and booed intermittently by some lawmakers while addressing the joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday. The actions of the lawmakers threw the parliament into a rowdy session while the president presented the 2019 Appropriation Bill...

President Muhammadu Buhari says the federal government has set aside N305 billion or $1 billion for fuel subsidy payments in the 2019 budget. Speaking to the joint session of the national assembly on Wednesday in Abuja, the president said the amount will be used to cater for NNPC...

PoliticsNGR has been furnished with a transcript of President Muhammadu Buhari’s speech as he presented the 2019 Budget before the two chambers of the National Assembly today.... Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2ClYFxY Get More Nigeria Political News

Amidst the pandemonium that greeted the just concluded 2019 budget presentation at the National Assembly, Senator Godswill Akpabio (APC, Akwa Ibom) has called on the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and House of Reps. Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, to resign. Briefing newsmen at … Read more via...

President Muhammadu Buhari was welcomed into the National Assembly chambers today amidst cheers of ‘4 more years" and "Sai baba". The President arrived the assembly complex to present the 2019 budget. .. Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2GwJmGZ Get More Nigeria Political News

National Chairman, All Progressive Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on Wednesday appealed to the National Assembly not to distort the N8.83 trillion budget presented by President Muhammdu Buhari to the Assembly for approval. Oshiomhole described Buhari’s presentation of the 2019...

A Political Economist, Mr Ismaila Suleiman, has said that the decision of President Muhammadu Buahri to set up a technical committee to look into the implementation of new national minimum wage was to avoid crisis between the states and the Federal Government. Suleiman said this … Read more...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presented the 2019 budget to the joint session of the national assembly... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2CmUbqV Get More Nigeria Political News

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday next week present the proposed 2019 budget to the National Assembly. Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representative, made this known on Thursday at the floor of the lower chamber. The speaker said this was contained in a letter sent to …...

Members of House of Representatives have threatened to boycott session Wednesday, next week meant for the presentation of 2019 appropriation bill by President Muhammadu Buhari.... Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2zW0f8f Get More Nigeria Political News

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over a special federal executive council (FEC) meeting aimed to finalise works on the 2019 budget. Adebayo Shittu, communications, and Solomon Dalung, minister of sports and youth development, took the opening prayer. The meeting is to...

President Muhammadu Buhari a few days ago, in his usual characteristics of self-righteousness and buck passing blamed tardiness in the passage of budgets by the National Assembly for the delay in the completion of projects across the country by his government. He spoke when he received a …...

The federal government yesterday indicated that it was targeting a tighter fiscal plan next year, with a projected budget of N8.65 trillion in 2019. This was disclosed the minister of budget and national planning, Udo Udoma, during a public consultation on the 2019-2021 Medium Term Fiscal...