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Senate Advances Strong Oversight to Rein in Public Procurement

Temitope Nlewemchi — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:35:01 +0000

The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has rolled out a series of decisive moves to tighten the oversight of public procurement across federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), underscoring the imperative of transparency, value for money and inclusive contracting. At the heart of the drive are two linked priorities: ensuring compliance with existing [...]

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2025 Budget: 593 MDAs to Spend N41bn on Generator Fuel

Temitope Nlewemchi — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:44:05 +0000

The 2025 Nigerian federal budget reveals that 593 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) will collectively spend a staggering ₦41 billion on fuel for generators. This allocation has raised concerns regarding the country’s energy infrastructure and the ongoing reliance on costly alternative power sources despite efforts to address the nation’s power sector challenges. The substantial budget [...]

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Nigerian Policymakers Urged to Embrace Evidence-Based Decision-Making

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 21:00:48 +0000

Policymakers across Federal Ministries, Agencies, and Departments (MDAs), as well as in the National Assembly (NASS), have received a clarion call to consistently integrate evidence synthesis reports into their policy and programmatic decisions. Professor Jesse Uneke, Vice-Chancellor of David Umahi Federal University of Health Sciences, Uburu, Ebonyi State, and founder of the African Institute for [...]

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2023 Budget: Ogun Assembly probes Local Governments, MDAs

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 06:00:47 +0000

On Monday, the Ogun State House of Assembly will get started with evaluating the performance of the 2023 budget for the third quarter of the year. It is planned to conduct audits of the numerous ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) of the state government as well as the councils of local government in order to [...]

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Reps investigate N226.3bn judgement debt incurred by MDAs

Ifeanyi Nwagboso — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:00:19 +0000

A total of N226,281,801,881.64 in judgement debt incurred by government ministries, departments, and agencies has been designated for investigation by the House of Representatives. To protect the government’s finances, the lower legislative house also decided to acknowledge the urgency of paying these judgement debts. The vote came after a motion by Hon. Lanre Okunlola was [...]

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FG disburse N1.95tr to MDAs for capital projects in 2020, says FRC

Temitope Nlewemchi — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 21:23:47 +0000

Over N1.95 trillion was disbursed and cash-backed to ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) by the Federal Government in its 2020 budget implementation. This was contained in the 2020 Fiscal Responsibility Commission’s (FRC) yearly report and audited account obtained yesterday. That government budgeted N2.7 trillion for capital expenditure in 2020 while actual total capital expenditure for [...]

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Lack of organization by MDAs slowing down growth of MSMEs, says SMEDAN

Temitope Nlewemchi — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:31:50 +0000

The Director-General, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Dikko Radda has cried out that poor coordination by government agencies was impeding the growth of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. Radda established this at the Train-The-Trainers capacity workshop for the implementation of the new National Policy on MSMEs [...]

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Senate To Deal With MDAs Violating Procurement Act

David Folami — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:04:30 +0000

The Senate on Thursday threatened to deal with Ministries, Departments or Agencies (MDAs) which violated the Public Procurement Act which compelled them to give preference to locally-produced in their purchases. President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, made the threat when members of Leather and Allied Products Manufacturers Association of Abia State (LEAPMAAS) visited him [...]

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2016 Budget Preparation: National Planning Ministry to provide support to MDAs

Alaba Rotimi — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 22:22:08 +0000

The Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning has commenced bilateral meetings with Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) towards providing the technical support required for improvement in the quality of their submission, preparatory to their formal response to the 2016 Budget call circular scheduled for release soon. The report released by the Budget and National [...]

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Governor El-Rufai Warns MDAs Against Rejection Of Corps Members

Wale Adebayo — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:36:31 +0000

Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has warned Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the state against rejecting corps members posted to them. Mr. El-Rufai gave the warning in Kaduna on Monday at the end of orientation course for the 2,450 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members deployed to the state under the first stream [...]

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