Nigeria: Senate Laments Inadequate Funding of Christian Pilgrims Commission

19 October 2016

The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs has lamented the inadequate funding of the Nigeria Christians Pilgrims Commission (NCPC) by the Federal Government.

The committee, which made its position known on Wednesday during an oversight visit to the NCPC headquarters in Abuja, decried the allocation of N54m to the commission in the 2016 Budget, an amount it said was insufficient for capital projects.

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