In its bid to improve the 2017 budget process, the federal government held a 3-day workshop in Lagos on strategic planning, plan implementation and effective linkage to the budgeting process for civil servants.
The event brought together budget, planning, research and statistics officers responsible for the preparations of sector strategies, plans and budget in the federal ministries and agencies to deliberate the requirement for ensuring a successful implementation of a strategic plan.
Mrs. Nana Fatima Mede, the Permanent Secretary, federal ministry of budget and national planning told participants that the country’s fiscal policies must change to ensure that expenditure is linked to sound strategy for maximum impact on the common man on the street.
The Director-General, Centre for Management Development, (CMD), Dr Kabir Kabo, said at the end of the workshop, participants will be able to use strategic planning techniques to identify impelling and impeding forces in planning to produce a functional plan and to analyze national development goals.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday interrogated former Governor of Akwa Ibom State Godswill Akpabio over allegation of financial crimes. Daily Trust gathered that Akpabio honoured the invitation by the anti-graft agency to explain allegations of looting of the state’s funds during his tenure. Sources told our correspondent that Senator Akpabio was being interrogated late yesterday evening at the Abuja head offices of the Commission. He was spotted at the EFFC office in company of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Rickey Tarfa, at about 5:20pm. Akpabio’s arrest yesterday is fallout of the petition by an Abuja-based lawyer and activist, Leo Ekpenyong, who had on June 8 this year petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and the EFCC, calling for Senator Akpabio’s probe and accusing him of looting. The petitioner had earlier on Wednesday adopted his petition and provided more details to the anti-graft agency on the allegations against the minority leader of People...
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