Skip to main content

Buhari Budgets N980M For a Website "Upgrade" In 2016 National Budget

By
The Nigerian senate yesterday, revealed that the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Senate, Senator Ita Enang, reproduced a budget document different from the original 2016 Appropriation Bill submitted to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 22, 2015.

President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, who disclosed this vowed that the Senate would never consider the adulterated version of the bill.
According to the fresh budget submitted by Ita Enang, expenditures accruing to the presidency received a massive increase of additional N3.9 billion.
N3.6 billion previously earmarked for purchase of luxury BMW cars was reduced to N340 million while the Ministry of Solid Minerals headed by Dr. Kayode Fayemi curiously got a fresh N795,234,275 for website upgrade.
The office of the Chief of Staff to the president got additional N75 Million. The office of the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the president, State House Medical Centre, and the State House Lagos Liaison Office each got 25,000,000 allocation increase.
Below is a table TheCable reportedly obtained from BudgIT, showing the alterations to the 2016 budget:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts

Interesting: This is what happens to our bodies when we die

By
Death is an inescapable yet fascinating process, and the only ones who can explain that are the ones who deal with it on a daily basis. Business Insider spoke with Dr. Judy Melinek, CEO of PathologyExpert Inc. and a practicing forensic pathologist in the San Francisco Bay Area, to find out what exactly happens when a person dies. Melinek, who has performed over 2,500 autopsies in her career, says:
Post a Comment
Read full story »

FG to send 700 soldiers to Liberia

By
Even as the dreaded Boko Haram sect keeps tormenting the North-Eastern part of the country, no fewer than 700 officers and men of the Nigerian Army would depart the country for a peacekeeping operation in Monrovia, Liberia on Monday. They were, however, warned to abide by the rules of engagement and respect the culture and tradition of the Liberian people during their stay in Liberia. The General Officer Commanding, One Mechanised Division, Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Maj-Gen. Kenneth Osuji, stated this at the graduation of troops at a pre-deployment training held at the Nigerian Army Peacekeeping Centre, Jaji, near Kaduna on Friday. Osuji was also GOC of the 1 Brigade made up of the Nigerian Battalion 36 in the United Nations Mission in Liberia. Osuji warned the troops against contracting the dreaded Ebola virus while in Liberia. He also charged the officers to portray the country in a good light by avoiding any act capable of embarrassing the army. Osuji said, “Be reminded tha...
Post a Comment
Read full story »

I don’t care what people say about my age –Halima Abubakar

By
Kogi State-born actress, Halima Abubakar, certainly doesn’t care whose ox is gored especially since she went public about her age. Immediately she went on the social media to declare that she is 30 years, some of her fans and critics began to diss her. While some claim that she certainly couldn’t be 30 years, others accused her of shortening her age by at least five years. But while speaking to Saturday Beats, the actress said she wasn’t bothered about the ‘ranting’ of other people, saying she knows her age and is proud of it. “I have said what my real age is. I am 30, I am not bothered in any way about what people say,” she told Saturday Beats on the phone. (JAB)
Post a Comment
Read full story »