BudgIT, worried that some states are yet to fully offset the outstanding amount owed pensioners and civil servants despite series of bailouts aimed at offsetting the liabilities, recently conducted a survey. The survey, according to a statement signed Ayomide Faleye, Communications Lead, was aimed at ascertaining the frequency and magnitude of challenges civil servants and […]
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As the debate between the executive and the legislature over which arm of the Federal Government was responsible for the late passage of the 2018 budget continues to simmer, findings by the civic organisation, BudgIT, have revealed that only 15 out of the country’s 36 states have published their budgets for this year. In a […]
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BudgIT, a civic tech transparency organization has berated state governments for not disclosing details of their 2018 budget. The group also accused the governments of Lagos state and Kwara state of been notoriously opaque in budget disclosures. In a statement titled, “Opaque Nigerian State Budgets”, signed by the Project Manager, BudgIT, Mr. Abayomi Akinbo, the […]
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A civic technology organisation, BudgIT, has commended plans to end gas flaring by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation ( NNPC ). The organisation, in a statement by its Communication Lead, Abiola Afolabi, in Abuja on Wednesday, said the plan by NNPC to reduce gas flaring could not have come at a better time than this. […]
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) overhead costs took the lion share of $33.8billion it generated in 2016, latest findings from BudgIT, a data and technology civic group has revealed. Further findings of the review of the corporation’s 2016 financial/operations report by BudgIT, said NNPC’s operational expenses between 2015 and 2016 consistently outstripped its revenue […]
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Lead Partner, BudgIT, Mr. Oluseun Onigbinde, has called on the Federal Government to begin early the process of the 2018 budget, to avoid delay in its implementation. Onigbinde gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday. BudgIT is a civil society organisation that advocates open data, accountability […]
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