A demand has been made to the Federal government to reveal the specifics of the N100 billion 2024 zonal intervention project budget. Ayomide Ladipo, the Head of Tracka, expressed this need in a statement issued on Friday. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ratified the N28.7 trillion 2024 Budget in January 2024. However, the Nigerian government’s Budget Office has not yet made public the breakdown of the N100 billion ZIP budget several months later. Ladipo voiced, “Tracka, an initiative by BudgIT for enhancing service delivery, empowers citizens to collaborate, monitor, and provide input on local public projects.” “Tracka insists on the Budget Office of the Federation disclosing the budgetary specifics related to the N100 billion Zonal Intervention Project (ZIP) as outlined in the 2024 Federa...

In a recent statement, the Nigerian government emphasized that the country's N20 trillion pension fund is secure and protected. During a press release on Thursday, Minister of Finance Wale Edun reiterated this assurance. Following last Tuesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting, Edun mentioned a forthcoming strategy to utilize local funds for infrastructure enhancement. His declaration met criticism from the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress, who urged the government to avoid meddling with the pension fund. The NLC President Joe Ajaero and TUC Deputy President Tommy Okon issued a joint statement reminding the government that "Nigerian workers have entrusted their hard-earned savings for retirement security, not for government projects." They stressed the importance ...