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Buhari Takes Action Over Nigeria's Budget Padding

President Muhammadu Buhari has redeployed 184 top civil servants who tampered with figures in the 2016 budget.

Nigeria: Buhari Moves Top Officials Over Budget Padding

Vanguard, 10 March 2016

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday, made good his threat to deal ruthlessly with top civil servants who altered figures in the 2016 budget thereby making nonsense of his zero… Read more »

President Muhammadu Buhari submits his budget for 2016 to the Senate chamber (file photo).

Nigeria: Budget Padding: Buhari Removes 22 Top Directors From Budget Office

Premium Times, 11 March 2016

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday approved the immediate deployment of 22 top directors from the Budget office. Read more »
Nigeria: Buhari Redeploys 184 Top Officials Over Budget Padding

Leadership, 11 March 2016

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday ordered the redeployment of top officials over the recent budget padding which ridiculed the 2016 national budget proposal. Read more »

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Calls for Nigeria President's Impeachment for Altered 2016 Budget

The Peoples Democratic Party has accused Ita Enang, a Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, of presenting an altered version of the 2016 budget to lawmakers. Read more »
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Nigeria's 2016 Budget Runs Into Trouble

The National Assembly has postponed voting on the 2016 budget citing inherent errors, ambiguities and rampant cases of budget padding discovered in the draft budget. Read more »
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