Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello on Friday proposed N108 billion budget estimate for the 2017 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly. The appropriation bill tagged "Budget of Consolidation" was designed to give priority attention to Youth and Women Empowerment; completion of...

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma, will give a breakdown of the N7.30 trillion 2017 budget estimates on Monday, according to a statement. The statement, issued by the minister’s Media Adviser, James Akpandem on Wednesday in Abuja, noted that Udoma...

President Muhammadu Buhari has presented a N7.298 trillion 2017 budget before the joint session of the National Assembly. The presentation was made in Abuja with members of the senate and House of Representatives in joint session. President Buhari said at the ceremony that government benchmarked the...

The Senate has said even though President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2017 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly next Wednesday, it will not consider the bill until the 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper it is currently working on is...

...President Buhari asks NASS for presentation of budget December 14, 2016 ...No salary increment for workers in 2017 Budget ...Retains N500bn social intervention programmes in 2017 ...Launches economic recovery and growth plan before end of December Major Highlights of 2017 Budget Capital Expenditure = N2.078 trillion Recurrent Expenditure =...

A fiscal plan is usually a clear and precise statement of what government hopes to realistically earn as income and how much it would spend within a given time frame. Thus in a year, if projected incomes exceed expenditures, a surplus will be available as...