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The Senate on Wednesday approved the sum of N257,183,671,694.71 for the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in the 2021 fiscal year.
It also approved N1.678 trillion as target revenue of the agency for 2021.
The approvals were sequel to the consideration and adoption of the report of the Senate Committee on Customs, Excise and Tariff.
Presenting the report, the Chairman of the committee, Senator Francis Alimikhena, said out of the N257,183,671,694.71 approved as Customs budget for 2021,
N137,933,180,013.00 is for capital expenditure, while personnel and overhead costs are to claim N99,719,722,681.71 and N19,530,769,000.00 respectively.
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December 31, 2020 3:30 pm by ismaila.chafe
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI AT THE SIGNING OF THE 2021 APPROPRIATION BILL AND THE 2020 FINANCE BILL INTO LAW ON THURSDAY DECEMBER 31, 2020 AT COUNCIL CHAMBERS, PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ABUJA.
It gives me great pleasure today to sign the 2021 Appropriation Bill and the enabling 2020 Finance Bill into law. I would like to appreciate the National Assembly, and in particular, thank the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and indeed all distinguished and honourable leaders and members for their cooperation in expeditiously enacting these important money bills. This will enable their implementation to commence by 1st January 2021.
Buhari praises 2020 budget performance, tasks revenue agencies with meeting 2021 target
President Buhari issues warnings to government s revenue agencies to work hard to meet their targets.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration achieved an ‘impressive’ 97.7 per cent overall performance of the
The president said this at the State House in Abuja after signing the N13.6 trillion 2021 budget into law on Thursday. He also signed the 2020 Finance Bill into law.
“In spite of the adverse impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the nation’s economy and the Government’s revenues, we have made appreciable progress in the implementation of the 2020 Budget. As at December 2020, we had released about One-point-Seven-Four-Eight Trillion Naira (N1.748 trillion) out of a total of the One-Point-Nine-Six-Two Trillion Naira (N1.962 trillion) voted for the implementation of critical capital projects, representing a performance of about Eight-Nine-Point-One Percent (89.1%).
What Buhari said before signing 2021 Appropriation Bill into law
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President Muhammadu Buhari
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI AT THE SIGNING OF THE 2021 APPROPRIATION BILL AND THE 2020 FINANCE BILL INTO LAW ON THURSDAY DECEMBER 31, 2020 AT COUNCIL CHAMBERS, PRESIDENTIAL VILLA, ABUJA.
It gives me great pleasure today to sign the 2021 Appropriation Bill and the enabling 2020 Finance Bill into law. I would like to appreciate the National Assembly, and in particular, thank the Senate President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and indeed all distinguished and honourable leaders and members for their cooperation in expeditiously enacting these important money bills. This will enable their implementation to commence by 1st January 2021.