Budget and National Planning

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has urged the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to abort the planned protests against the Federal government's proposed removal of fuel subsidy, saying the move is “totally…

Anthony Iwuoma Senate President Ahmed Lawan has debunked reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the remove fuel subsidy. Sen. Lawan's stance, however, is at variance with that of Minister of Finance, Budget and National…

Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has visited the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajia Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, at her office, in Abuja.  The governor was accompanied by the Commissioner of Finance and…

Zainab Ahmed, Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has revealed that the Federal Government would remove fuel subsidies by 2022. In place of the fuel subsidy, Zainab Ahmed said the Federal Government introduce a…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said that for the deficit in the country’s budget to be drastically reduced, concerted effort must be made by the Executive and Legislature to explore alternative sources of funding to reduce borrowing. …

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, said that the Federal Government had not recovered N5.15 trillion owed to it by third parties. On March 31, 2021 that Mrs. Ahmed disclosed that the government had been…

The Senate has approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s request for the authourisation of N2.343 trillion ($6.183 billion USD) as External Borrowing in the 2021 Appropriation Act. This was just as it directed the Minister of Finance, Budget…

Indications emerged, on Wednesday, that  nation’s land borders that have been closed since August 2019 might soon be reopened. Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, gave this indication during an interview with…

The Federal Government, states and local government councils have shared N639.901 billion for the month of September, Mr. Aliyu Ahmed, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, has said. Mr. Hassan Dodo,…

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a budget estimate of N13.08 trillion for the 2021 fiscal year. The fiscal document was approved at a meeting of the council on Wednesday presided over by the President Muhammadu Buhari.…