Friday Columnists

Benue’s opaque budget

Thursday, 26 April 2012 22:51 administrator

NASIR EL-RUFAI ON FRIDAY

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We continue our analysis of the budgets of the state governments with the North-Central state of Benue. Bordered by Nasarawa state to the north, Taraba state to the east, Ebonyi and Cross River states to the south, and Kogi state to the west, Benue state was created on the 13th February, 1976, when Benue-Plateau state was separated into Benue and Plateau states by the Murtala-Obasanjo admini-stration.

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Last Updated ( Friday, 27 April 2012 00:11 )

Lagos: Sound govt, sensible budget

Thursday, 19 April 2012 22:25 administrator

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In continuation of our focus on state budgets’ with a view to analyzing their viability, fiscal prudence and accountability to citizens, the spotlight this week is on Lagos. Lagos state is one of the 13 states in the country which have presented a fiscal responsibility bill to the state House of Assembly,

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 April 2012 22:34 )

Bauchi’s hopeless budget

Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:26 administrator

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As we explore the issue of Nigeria's missing federalism, we turn today to Bauchi as we focus on and analyze sub-national budgets, fiscal prudence and good governance. The state is one of the older states with the good fortune of being decently governed in the past - by people like General Sani Sami as military governor and, more recently, my former classmate Ahmed Adamu Muazu.

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A federation without federalism

Friday, 06 April 2012 00:14 administrator

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If any questions remain as to why, despite huge oil revenues and massive borrowing by the government - poverty, unemployment and insecurity have worsened, our detailed analysis in this column of the 2011 and 2012 budgets of the federal government would have provided some answers. We raised posers on whether the vast sums of money earmarked for the expenditure heads – both capital and recurrent have in any way added value to the lives of Nigerians, and offered alternative spending and expenditure priorities on how our resources may be better managed.

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Last Updated ( Friday, 06 April 2012 02:40 )

Opposition politics and lessons of Senegal

Friday, 30 March 2012 00:50 administrator

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The West Africa has found itself in the news recently for two diametrically opposed phenomena; the coup in Mali just six weeks to national elections and the just concluded run-off elections in Senegal. The Senegalese elections are especially poignant for many reasons.

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