Budget Padding

The Network for the Actualisation of Social Growth and Viable Development (NEFGAD), a public procurement advocacy group, has condemned the interference of the national assembly with budgetary allocations under the guise of constituency…
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio over “the failure to refer the alleged N3.7 trillion budget padding to appropriate anti-corruption agencies…
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President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio says the upper chamber will soon review Senator Abdul Ningi’s three-month suspension which was imposed on him over claims that the N28.78 trillion 2024 budget was padded to the tune of N3.7…
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The Senator representing Bauchi Central in the Upper Chamber of the National Assembly, Abdul Ningi, has written a letter demanding his reinstatement to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.  Ningi was suspended by the senate over a budget…
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By Umar Yakubu The amalgamation of Bauchi state concern group has demanded that the Senate review the 2024 budget and all anomalies therein be corrected with immediate effect. The group frowned at the suspension of Senator Abdul…
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The last may just not have been heard about the alleged padding of the 2024 budget by the 10th National Assembly in Nigeria (NASS). In the wake of the allegation by now-suspended Senator Abdul Ningi (Bauchi Central) that the Senate…
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Ali Ndume, Chief Whip of the Senate, says each senator was allocated N200 million for constituency projects in the 2024 budget. Speaking in an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday, Ndume said 10 senators, who are leaders,…
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Abdul Ningi, suspended senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District, has alleged that his suspension by the Nigerian Senate was a move to stop him from speaking truth to power. Ningi, who was slammed with a 3-month…
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A civil society organisation (CSO) focused on the Nigerian budget and public data, BudgIT, has thrown its weight behind suspended Senator Abdul Ningi on a N3.7 trillion gap in the 2024 budget presented to the National Assembly. The…
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On Tuesday, the Nigerian Senate suspended Abdul Ningi, the senator representing Bauchi Central Senatorial District for three months over an allegation that the 2024 budget was padded with N3 trillion. Ningi, who resigned as the…
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