ENDING half a century of unproductive exploration, in 1956, Nigeria discovered oil in commercial quantities in the Niger Delta. The industry has since grown...
ROTIMI Amaechi, former Governor of Rivers State and current Minister of Transportation, Solomon Dalung, Minister of Sports, and Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Agriculture, are...
The Plan envisages that by 2020, Nigeria would have made significant progress towards achieving structural economic change with a more diversified and inclusive economy.
The Senate on Thursday rejected the 2017-2019 Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, as well as the Fiscal Sustainability Paper, FSP, forwarded to the upper legislative chamber by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Senate has invited the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo-Udoma to throw more light on the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, MTEF, which formed the basis for the formulation of the 2017 – 2019 budget proposals.
The Federal Government has said that the proceeds from the proposed sale of some of the country’s national assets would be used to fund the expenditure of government as contained in the 2016 budget.
The Minister of Budget and Planning, Udo Udoma, and his Finance counterpart, Kemi Adeosun, on Friday explained the various strategies being adopted by the federal government to stabilise the country’s economy.