The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, will on Thursday declare open the 1st Nigerian Economic Stakeholders' Summit in Abuja. Dogara will also use the forum to highlight and deepen the sectoral debate on the economy, which is currently taking place in the...

After several months of controversy, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday finally signed into law the 2016 Budget. The budget assented to was N200 million short of the N6.08 trillion Buhari presented to the National Assembly. The president signed the budget in the presence of the Vice President...

The impasse over the 2016 Budget passed by the National Assembly and awaiting presidential assent may be broken at the House of Representatives which expressed a readiness to ‘re-examine ‘ it yesterday. The decision to take a second look at the budget at the lower...

The controversy over the non-inclusion of the Calabar-Lagos rail project in the 2016 budget has pitted southern senators against their northern counterparts, with the former throwing their weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to withhold his assent on the budget. In the view of senators...