Despite strident denials by top officials of the National Assembly, it has been discovered that the legislators padded the 2016 budget to the tune of N481 billion. Documents obtained by Vanguard showed that apart from padding the budget with the huge sum, forcing the Presidency...

Questions over N370bn in Service Wide Votes Agric, Transport, Power ministries top list All ministries, agencies mentioned THE National Assembly Budget Office has discovered fresh padding of over N500 billion contained in the budgetary proposals for ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in the 2016 budget proposals being...

The House of Representatives says the National Assembly will on March 17 pass the 2016 Appropriation Bill totalling N6.08 trillion. The House Committee Chairman on Appropriation, Abdulmumini Jibrin, told newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja that the Appropriation Committees of both the chambers of the National...

17,474 Political Officers Earn N1.1 trillion annually Salaries and allowances for political office holders have always been problematic in Nigeria. In 1979, as soon as the National Assembly was inaugurated, the first debate they had was fixing their remuneration and as a consequence, the Nigerian...