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Presidency Cost Down By N5bn In 2021 Budget
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 AT 4:09:56 AM
The expenditure ceiling for the Presidency in the 2021 pre-bilateral proposal has been trimmed by N5.3 billion, with a peg at N10bn.
It was contained in a budget circular by the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning. The amount was N15.3bn in the revised 2020 budget appropriation.
The Permanent Secretary, State House, Mr Tijjani Umar, revealed this in a statement issued on Sunday by Attah Esa, Deputy Director (Information), in the Presidency.
Mr Umar, who cited the September 1, 2020 circular, said ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) had been directed to work assiduously to conclude the budget bilateral meetings to get the 2021 budget ready for transmission to the National Assembly (NASS) by President Muhammadu Buhari this month.
Federal government agencies in the Presidency have held consultations for the 2021 budget.
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Constitution review: Senate urges North’s elders to forward their views
Sanni Onogu, Abuja
THE Senate on Monday urged the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) to send the views of its members to the Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution for consideration.
The NEF had described the current efforts to alter the provisions of the Constitution as a waste of time.
Its Publicity Secretary, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, had urged the Senate to join hands in seeking permanent solution to insurgency, banditry and other forms of violence in the country.
But Chairman of Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Surajudeen Ajibola Basiru (Osun Central), said it was not correct to say that because previous constitutional amendments did not yield tangible result, that the present process would also fail.
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Basiru said: “Even though they are entitled to their views, the question to ask is: does it mean that if former legislatures cum Executive (administrations) have possibly or allegedly failed in this regard, then it can never be achieved?
“Their statement even implied an agreement by them that there is need for fundamental restructuring, which is the purpose of the present endeavor of the Ninth National Assembly.â€
“Their views can be encapsulated in a memorandum to the Constitution Review Committee.
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“The thematic areas advertised for constitutional reforms cut across some of the concerns they raised and, therefore, we shall be glad to engage them through proper legislative channel rather than news media.â€
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