The Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) and the Aig-Imoukhuede Institute are pleased to announce the commencement of its AIG Public Leaders Programme in partnership with the University of Oxfordâs Blavatnik School of Government.
The AIG Public Leaders Programme affords 50 high potential men and women working in the Nigerian public service a once in a lifetime opportunity to participate in a seven-week world-class leadership programme, run by an accomplished faculty of expert facilitators and teachers from the University of Oxford.
According to a statement, through blended classes hosted online and in Abuja, programme participants would acquire a range of vital leadership skills, conceptual frameworks and practical tools that would empower them to be more effective as they lead their departments and organisation through the challenges of an increasingly complex and dynamic world.
Oba Darasimi
For sixth consecutive year, the National Assembly has approved budget for the non-existing Office of the Chief Economic Adviser (OCEAP) to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The National Assembly approved N46.86 million in the 2021 budget to an office which clearly has no presidential appointee and personnel to account for monetary approvals allocated to it.
According to the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, budget approval for the OCEAP has now risen to N620.31 million in six years without an appointee to answer for the monetary disbursements
As of July 2020, data from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) revealed that N116.97 million had been released to the OCEAP out of the N573.45 million cumulative budgets.
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It was learnt that pressure is being mounted on the president to sign the fiscal document so as not to give room for condemnation.
Buhari signed the 2020 appropriation bill into law on December 17, 2019, 12 days after it was passed by the National Assembly.
The document was later revised mid- 2020 following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, which battered the country’s economy.
The National Assembly had, during an emergency session convened last week Monday, passed a N13.58 trillion budget for the 2021 fiscal year.
Passed by NASS
The budget was passed after the two chambers considered and adopted the reports of its committees on the 2021 Appropriations bill.
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