Ben Akabueze

Professional bodies and councils may from now, start to cut costs following their exclusion from the federal government's budgetary allocation from 1 January 2024. Presidential Committee On Salaries (PCS) has recommended their exclusion, a…

The 2023 Executive Budget Proposal will be submitted to the federal lawmakers for consideration and approval in September 2022. Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation(BOF). Ben Akabueze disclosed at the commencement of…

The Senate leadership was locked in discussion with the executive for over two and half hours on Monday over the readiness of the latter to purchase the Covid-19 vaccines which will gulp N377.6 billion over a period of two years. The…

The Federal Government is considering releasing funds from its service-wide vote to clear the November salaries of the workers of 428 ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) of the federal civil service. The Director-General of the…

The Federal Government on Thursday said Nigeria's current recession will be a short-lived recession. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the…

Ben Akabueze, the Director-General of the Budget Office, says the 2020 budget presented by President Muhammadu Buhari, tagged the “Budget of Growth and Job Creation,” clearly defines its objectives. Mr Akabueze made this known on the…

Long delays in approving federal budgets have been blamed on the constant tussle between the executive and National Assembly on which of the two arms of government has the power of appropriation. The director general, Budget Office of…

BARBARA BAKO, Abuja  A committee to review the expenditure plans vis a vis the performance of various Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) has begun work to further federal government's efforts to urgently improve…

The federal government said on Tuesday, its own enterprises, including the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), owe about N10 trillion in unremitted operating surplus as at the end of August 2018. The Director-General, Budget Office of the…

BARBARA BAKO, Abuja. The Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Mr Ben Akabueze said federal government has never reaped one percent income of over N40 trillion invested in state owned enterprises (SOEs)…