2025 Budget

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, says the proposed 2025 budget submitted by President Bola Tinubu can’t address Nigeria’s economic challenges. Atiku, in a statement on Sunday, said the proposed budget is business as usual. According to him, the 2025 budget can’t address Nigeria’s economic challenges because it has weak budgetary foundations, contains disproportionate … Read more

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on Senate President Godswill Akpabio and House of Representatives Speaker Tajudeen Abbas to reduce the proposed ₦9.4 billion budget allocated for travels, refreshments, meals, and catering for the presidency, as well as the ₦344.85 billion proposed for lawmakers. Henzodaily reports that SERAP suggested that savings from … Read more

The Federal Government of Nigeria has earmarked a total of ₦6,364,181,224 billion for the refurbishment and rehabilitation of the residential accommodations for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, and several of their aides in the proposed 2025 budget. The proposed funding was highlighted in the 2025 Appropriation Bill submitted to the National Assembly, … Read more

A former Secretary to the Anambra State Government, Oseloka Obaze, has said the 2025 budget showed misplaced priorities on the side of the federal government. The former SSG under former Governor Peter Obi, Obaze, regretted that the 2025 budget made more provisions for members of the National Assembly than it made for critical sectors of … Read more

The Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, has said the 2025 budget would attract private investors into the country’s economy. Wale Edun said the government of President Bola Tinubu would surpass the budget’s growth target of 4.6 percent growth per annum. The Finance Minister stated this on Friday in an … Read more

The House of Representatives member for Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency of Osun State, Oluwole Oke, has said the 2025 budget submitted by President Bola Tinubu was grossly inadequate. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lawmaker, Oluwole Oke, said with the population size of the country and the pressing economic needs of the country, the budge,t which is … Read more

The Federal Government has allocated a whopping ₦27bn for the entitlements of former presidents, vice presidents, heads of state, chiefs of staff, retired heads of service, and professors in the 2025 fiscal year. According to Saturday Punch investigation, the beneficiaries of this allocation include prominent figures such as former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan, and … Read more

Former Special Adviser on Media to ex President Olusegun Obasanjo, Doyin Okupe, has said the priority given to defence in 2025 budget showed President Bola Tinubu’s seriousness in tackling insecurity. The former Director-General of Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organisation said the projections on daily crude oil output, price and foreign exchange benchmarks, are realizable. Okupe … Read more

The Senator representing Kwara Central, Saliu Mustapha, has decried that the 2025 budget did not give as much priority to agriculture as it gave to security. Senator Mustapha made the observation on the floor of the Senate during a debate on the budget, on Thursday. Henzodaily reported that defence had the highest allocation of ₦4.9 … Read more