ABUJA — The senate committee on finance has said the 2022 budget did not include the N5,000 transportation grant proposed for N40 million poor Nigerians. A few days ago, the minister of finance, budget, and national planning, Zainab Ahmed, had announced that the country would remove petrol subsidy by 2022 and replace it with an N5000-a-month transportation grant to the poorest of the country’s population. However, the senate committee argued that there is no provision...

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari has again shown that he is a compassionate leader with his approval of a 4th multi-billion naira bailout for states in six years. The Buhari Media Organisation said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke, that the decision to disburse N656billion to be shared among the 36 States as budget support facility was totally unexpected. According to the group, “we were pleasantly surprised when...