2024 Budget

Budget padding: Ningi to return to Senate in few days – Sen. President

Abdul Ningi, the suspended senator representing the Bauchi Central senatorial district, has received a reprieve as the Upper Chamber prepares to review his...

Senate Increases FCT 2024 Budget To ₦1.3trn

The Senate has increased the 2024 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) budget to about ₦1.3 trillion after the bill scaled third reading. Persecondnews reports...

Breaking: Rowdy session as senators confront Ningi over budget padding allegation

The Senate was thrown into a rowdy session on Tuesday after Sen. Jarigbe Jarigbe (PDP-Cross-River North) disclosed that all ranking senators got the...

N3trn budget padding: Presidency denies allegation, slams Sen. Ningi

The Presidency has refuted claims that it added N3 trillion to the budget for 2024 after it was passed by the National Assembly....

2024 budget padded with N3trn, senator alleges

A senator has raised the alarm that a different 2024 budget that included an additional N3 trillion was “passed underground”. According to Senator...

Just in: Court Nullifies Passage of N800bln Rivers 2024 Budget

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday nullified the N800 billion budget passed by the Edison Ehie-led group of the Rivers State...

2024 Budget: Gbajabiamila lampoons fake news merchants, says no N10bn for official residence renovation

The Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila, has debunked claims of N10 billion provision in the 2024 budget for...

2024 budget will be people’s budget – Speaker Abbas

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas, has assured that the 2024 budget will be the “people’s budget” that will...

Nigerians worry more about rising prices of commodities, not budgetary arithmetic — Rewane

Renowned economist and Managing Director/CEO, Financial Derivatives Company Ltd, Mr Bismarck Rewane, has said many Nigerians are not interested in the budgetary figures...

2024 budget: Reps convene first budget town hall meetings for public input

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Tajudeen Abbas, has assured Nigerians of their participation in the budgeting process and eventual approval...

Nigeria’s debt may climb above $51.75bn as FG plans to borrow N7.8trn for 2024 budget deficit

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said on Wednesday that his government will finance the 2024 budget with N7. 8 trillion loan. Persecondnews reports that...

2024 N27.5trn budget: Tinubu targets 3.76 % economic growth, N9.18trn deficit

President Bola Tinubu has presented a N27.5 trillion budget, tagged “Budget of Renewed Hope” for the 2024 fiscal year Tinubu made the presentation...

Senate President confirms Tinubu’s 2024 budget presentation Nov. 29

Senate President Godswill Akpabio has confirmed that President Bola Tinubu will on Wednesday, November 29 present the 2024 Appropriation Bill of N27.5trn to...

Pres. Tinubu presents 2024 N26.1trn budget to joint session of NASS Nov. 29

President Bola Tinubu will on Wednesday, November 29 present the 2024 budget estimate of about N26.1 trillion to a joint session of the...

Budget of Booby Traps by Dakuku Peterside 

There is a deafening silence in the land over the state of the economy. No right-thinking person can take this silence or mood...