…in line with Nigeria’s national health financing commitments, with transparent budgeting, efficient resource utilisation, and measurable outcomes. “The 13 per cent from 2025 to 2026 can be improved upon. Abuja’s minimum benchmark declaration is 15 per cent. This percentage should be met or surpassed.Make PUNCH part of…

…and repeated extensions of implementation periods. This indicates that a reform in the budgeting processes is imperative. Our budgets do not take cognisance of the economic environment even at the conception level. The annual budget formulation foundation is often faulty. I sometimes wonder whether the economic environ…

…According to him, many farmers do not treat insurance as a critical farm input when budgeting for the planting season, focusing only on seeds and fertiliser. “The smallholder farmer is at high risk. They are very much exposed, especially with this issue of climate and weather. Those are the little risk factors that sma…

…acquisition, subject to gazette excision, or already owned by another party. 3. Budgeting for the Hidden "Family" and Community Fees If you are buying customary land directly from indigenous families rather than inside an organized gated estate, the price agreed with the seller is rarely the final cost. Factor in local…

…items. When basic food takes up more than half of your total monthly earnings, passive budgeting will not work. You need a deliberate system to stretch every single Naira without eating poorly or skipping nutritious meals. 1. The Trap of Neighborhood Kiosks The single biggest mistake households make is buying foodstuff…

…called for greater involvement of the state’s 33 Local Government Areas in HIV planning, budgeting, and implementation, including integrating HIV priorities into local government development plans and budgets. While acknowledging progress in HIV testing, treatment linkage, community outreach, advocacy, and service inte…

…upon which sustainable economic growth is built. “With predictable flows, national budgeting becomes more credible, infrastructure planning becomes more precise, and long-term contracts become easier to negotiate. Predictability is the silent currency of modern economies, and pipeline surveillance has begun restoring i…

…his administration will henceforth rely more on credible data and evidence in planning, budgeting and implementing development programmes across the state. He stated this on Thursday in Katsina while launching the Katsina State Development Plan, State Social Protection Policy, Multi-Sectoral Strategic Plan of Action fo…

…time.His candid breakdown of the numbers gave many viewers a realistic sense of what budgeting for such a system actually looks like, rather than only the advertised price of the unit itself.

…without clear plans on how the funds would reduce crime. Inalegwu advocated result-based budgeting, saying state Commissioners of Police should prepare annual policing plans outlining security priorities and the resources required to address them. He said the plans should reflect the prevailing security challenges in e…

…raised fundamental questions about the integrity of Nigeria’s public institutions, budgeting system, security architecture and presidential bureaucracy. He said, “CISLAC is not sufficiently impressed with the depth, independence and comprehensiveness of the investigation conducted so far by the House ad hoc committee.…

…According to him, the newly developed documents are intended to guide planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring and quality assurance of inclusive education programmes nationwide. Onwuzurike disclosed that the workshop would provide participants with practical skills on administering the Functional Difficulty Ear…

…of an administrative code for the Presidential Economic Advisory Council to facilitate budgeting, accounting and financial reporting.” He explained that, in line with established procedures, “the Office of the Accountant-General processed the request, created the administrative code and communicated its approval to the…

…and insulting to the governed. The proposal for “performance and priority-based budgeting” is welcome but woefully inadequate. Nigeria does not need new budgeting frameworks; it needs political will. It needs a government that treats the Appropriation Act as binding law rather than a suggestion. It needs transparency i…

…in the national budget carries a location. Why are these projects hidden? That is not budgeting; it is writing a blank cheque for corruption," he stated. Atiku further alleged that the secrecy surrounding the allocations raises concerns that the projects could become channels for misappropriating public funds. "If thes…

…is not a laundering machine for public funds. Faith must never become a camouflage for budgeting by concealment."Atiku was clear that his objection was not to genuine public support for community projects linked to religious institutions, but to the absence of transparency surrounding the current allocations. He said a…

…with the economic team also focused on introducing a performance- and priority-based budgeting system to replace the envelope budgeting approach and restore the previous payment system for contractors.

…“It is time to open the books, expose the truth and restore integrity to Nigeria’s budgeting process,” he said. The post Atiku queries Tinubu over suspicious N12.8trn service-wide vote appeared first on Vanguard News.

…an ADC administration would restore credibility to public finance through transparent budgeting, zero-based expenditure planning, digital public expenditure tracking and strict personal accountability for public officers. “When the owner of the barn invites goats to keep watch over his harvest, he should not be surpris…

…He characterized the allocation as a damning indictment of the integrity of the national budgeting process, suggesting it validates public suspicion that the budget has been treated as a warehouse for fiscal waste and indefensible expenditures. He directly linked this World Cup allocation to the ongoing controversy sur…

…beyond the criminal allegations against Adeyemi to broader concerns over Nigeria's budgeting and administrative processes, with opposition leaders, including former vice-president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, counterpart, Peter Obi, calling for institution of an independent panel to…