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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 On Tuesday, it was discovered that the budget was missing at the senate, and there have been speculations that it was withdrawn for correction.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...