2016 budget padding

The Transparency Group, a section of lawmakers at Nigeria's House of Representatives have found Speaker Yakubu Dogara and other Principal Officers of the House as guilty as the ex Appropriation Committee Chairman, Jibrin Abdulmumin guilty of padding Nigeria's 2016 budget. All 10 principal...

Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin may soon be arrested by the police over a N17bn fraud and money laundering petitions leveled against him, Punch reports. Reports say the ex Chairman of the House of Reps Appropriation Committee's meeting with the police and the EFCC didn't go exactly as he'd alleged...

A prominent Nigerian lawyer, Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN), has slammed Speaker of the House of Reps, Yakubu Dogara over his recent comment on the budget padding crisis rocking the house. Dogara had on Thursday failed to honor a police invitation to discuss allegations against him and other...

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang; and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Mr. Ismail Kawu, have stated that the 2016 budget is not padded, as claimed by Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin. Jibrin...

The Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has extended its probe on padding of the 2016 budget to the Senate Appropriation Committee, Vanguard reports. This follows the actions of sacked Chairman of the House of Reps Appropriation Committee, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, who submitted...

Sokoto state governor and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, is staunchly behind Yakubu Dogara in the messy budget padding scandal which has engulfed the house. Ex Chairman of the Appropriation Committee, Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin, had accused Dogara and other...

Ex Chairman of the House of Reps Appropriation Committee, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, in the early hours of Thursday exploded, accusing Speaker Yakubu Dogara of trying to blackmail him. "Speaker Dogara and his corrupt gang have gone mad!" he screamed on Facebook. "Please ignore the whatsApp chat...

Top officers of the House of Representatives have been summoned by the Nigerian Police to answer questions about the budget padding scandal currently rocking the House. According to The Nation, Police IG Ibrahim Idris has raised a special five-man team to probe the allegations brought against...

Honorable Abdulmumin Jibrin on Tuesday was summoned by the leadership of the APC over the ongoing crisis in the House of Representatives over the 2016 budget padding. Reports say Jibrin was to appear before a disciplinary panel. According to Premium Times, Jibrin met with the party’s national...

Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin has been summoned by the APC over the budget padding scandal rocking the house of Representatives, Premium Times reports. Jibrin is to appear before APC's disciplinary panel not later than Tuesday afternoon, a letter sent to him on Monday says. APC condemned the media...

Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, the Leader of Nigeria's House of Reps in reaction to reports he plans to destabilize the leadership of the House has spoken of the budget padding crisis rocking it. Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin is accusing speaker Yakubu Dogara and other principal officers of the chamber of...

An Ebonyi State federal lawmaker, Linus Okorie, has accused president Muhammadu Buhari of plotting the downfall of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara. In a statement released on Monday, the PDP lawmaker said the plot would definitely fail. He said the crisis in the house...

According to a report from New Telegraph, members of the Senate Appropriation Committee are afraid that the current crisis rocking the House of Representatives over padding of the 2016 budget would spill over to them. Someone familiar with the matter said the "anticipated padding controversy...

President Muhammadu Buhari has given the DSS and the police full backing to probe House of Representatives members who have been accused of padding the 2016 budget, Punch reports. Investigations showed that Buhari, as part of his commitment to the anti-graft war was favourably disposed to...

Operatives of Nigeria's State Secret Service, SSS, have sealed the secretariat of the House Committee on Appropriation, following the protracted accusations and allegations between ex Chairman of the Committee Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin and Speaker Yakubu Dogara and other principal officers of the...

PREMIUM TIMES has published an exclusive report of how former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Musa Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan tackled budget padding during their time in office. See brief excerpt: In 2000, former President Olusegun Obasanjo refused to sign the budget passed by the...

Tanko Yakassai has described the former Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriation, Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin as a blackmailer who is trying to hard to tarnish the image of his colleagues. See excerpt from Yakassai's interview session with SUN NEWS : How do you appraise the allegation of...

Members of the ‘Transparency Group’ of the House of Representatives has demanded that EFCC investigates Speaker Yakubu Dogara, Hon. Jibrin Abdulmumin and others over the alleged padding of the 2016 budget. According to Rep. Musa Soba (APC-Kaduna), about 113 signatures had been collected from...

Nigeria's former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon, has called for strict punishment for the lawmakers responsible for the padding of the 2016 budget, The Nation says. Speaking on Wednesday night, he wondered why the issue had become the order of the day. "If anybody is doing that (budget padding)...

PREMIUM TIMES’ digital lead, Emmanuel Ogala has written a very interesting piece on ''How to “pad” the Nigerian budget and be a billionaire'' Here are 11 steps to get rich quickly through the budget: 1. Get elected into the National Assembly –you can go to Senate or House of...