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Nigerian Journalist, Omoh Gabriel has looked into the budget crisis of President Muhammadu Buhari which has being trailed by massive furor in recent times. Muhammadu Buhari presenting the budget before the national assembly   Zero budgeting cannot be responsible for budget padding. It cannot be the reason for rats smuggling foreign provisions into the budget. It can not be the reason for double entry in allocation to ministries, departments and agencies of government. Those who prepare the budget have been around for many years. The Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation Dr. Bright Okogu holds a PhD in Economics from the famous University of Oxford London in 1987. He is not a stranger to budgeting process and figures. It is unheard of in the history of Nigeria’s budget circle and very shameful for the image of this administration that a serving minister will publicly disown the provisions made for his ministry. In the growing controversies dogging President Muhammadu Buh...

                       Senator Dino Melaye While addressing journalists yesterday, the Chairman Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Senator Dino Melaye, has vowed to probe former Presidents; Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan as well as ministers who served under them to correct alleged violation of the master plan of the nation’s capital city. The senator who represents Kogi West, did not exempt any former Minister of the FCT or President in the proposed probe, and said as a government of change, it was prepared to send any one found guilty to Kuje Prison which he said was not far from the Federal Capital City. While condemning what he described as the bastardization of Abuja Masterplan, Dino Melaye, expressed worry over why former FCT ministers allocated green areas designed for flood drains, city buffers, recreations, urban farming, reserved land and undevelopable areas to themselves and their friends. The pr...

Controversies over the 2016 National Budget may have just begun, with a fresh N3.9 billion injected into the second version of the budget presented by Ita Enang, special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly matters (Senate) according to the Senate. On December 22, 2015, the president had presented the appropriation bill before a joint session of the national assembly, and was well received as an expansionary budget aimed at stimulating the economy. On Tuesday, it was discovered that the budget was missing at the senate, and there have been speculations that it was withdrawn for correction. Senate President, Bukola Saraki met Buhari immediately after the senate plenary session, and thereafter dismissed the reports, saying the budget was with them. The presidency said hundreds of copies of the budget were presented to the national assembly and all could not possibly be missing. TheCable obtained both copies of the budget and highlighted the disparities between the t...

The controversy surrounding the missing 2016 National Budget of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, has taken a new turn with two separate copies coming into the picture and the person that allegedly committed the act revealed. According to an exclusive report on Premium Times, the Nigerian Senate has accused ‎the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Senate, Ita Enang, of changing the contents of the 2016 appropriation bill before making the document available to the lawmakers. It was learnt that the Senators at its plenary on Thursday, revealed that Ita Enang changed the contents of the original document as presented by President Buhari before a joint session of the National Assembly last December. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, disclosed this at the end of an executive closed session with the committe who investigated the missing budget that lasted over two hours. "What he distributed is different from what was presented by Mr. President...