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The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, has stressed the need for robust population management policies. Senator Udoma who was speaking at an interactive session at the ongoing Parliamentary Open Week, which kicked off at the National Assembly in Abuja on Monday, told the lawmakers that population management is one of the 60 key programmes set …

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The Ministry of Budget and National Planning said its attention has been drawn to a recent publication on the World Poverty Clock by World Data Lab in Vienna, Austria, indicating that Nigeria’s poverty rating was getting worse. The Ministry of Budget and National Planning has reviewed this report and would like to assure Nigerians that the report is not based on …

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The Federal Government is aiming to generate of N311 billion from privatisation of public properties and the sale of national assets next year to partly finance the 2018 budget. This is contained in the 2018 budget proposals submitted last Tuesday to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo …

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Barring any last minute change, the Ministry of Budget and National Planning said its in the process of finalizing the 2018 Budget proposals preparatory to submission to the National Assembly in October 2017 as earlier indicated. The Budget ministry said that the impression that the 2018 Budget proposals will now be submitted to the National Assembly in January 2018 as …

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The Ministry of Budget and National Planning said its attention has been drawn to publications in a section of the media indicating that the Federal Government is planning to raise about N5 trillion from assets sale in the next four years. Specifically, the Budget Ministry said that the publications claimed that the projected amount is contained in the Economy Recovery …

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