Senate Probes Budget Office Over N19bn Payment Without Approval   The Senate on Tuesday commenced investigation into alleged illegal payment of N19bn to four federal agencies, by the Budget Office. Officials of the Budget Office did not appear before the Senate Public Accounts Committee. SPAC, relying on the...

Work Begins On N16.39trn Budget As Senate Panel Gets Documents Today   The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, is expected to forward the 2022 Appropriation Bill to the Committee on Appropriation on Tuesday (today) during the plenary. A member of the panel disclosed this on condition of anonymity...

Senate Summons Freight Agents Over Illegal Cargo Charges         The Senate has commenced moves to stop processing delay and illegal charges on cargo transport by freight agents in Nigeria. The decision to end multiple charges on cargo processing and transport was reached by the upper chamber in...

Oil Benchmark Dispute Delays MTEF/FSP Consideration In Senate           The disagreement between the leadership of the Senate and the joint Senate committees that worked on the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper over the oil benchmark for the 2022 budget stalled the consideration...

N9.12 trillion 2018 Budget Passed By Senate The Senate has passed the 2018 Budget of N9.12 Trillion following the consideration and adoption of the Budget report laid on the floor of the upper legislative chamber on Tuesday. This is coming 6 months after the budget document...

The Senate has called on the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi to immediately withdraw his comment that the senate was delaying infrastructure development. In a statement signed by the Senate’s spokesperson, Sen, Aliyu Sabi, the senate said it was not delaying any construction and that...