Rivers State has been ranked as the foremost state on fiscal performance among the 36 states for the third consecutive year in a row. BudgIT, a civic-tech organisation leading the advocacy for fiscal transparency and accountability in Nigeria, in its 2022 #State of States Report titled ‘Sustainable Governance Reforms for a New Era’ circulated to […]
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BudgIT, Ondo Govt Sign MoU To Promote Fiscal Transparency
BudgIT, a frontline civic-tech organisation leading the advocacy for transparency and accountability in Nigeria, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ondo State Government to improve and support fiscal transparency and responsibility in the state. BudgIT entered into the pact under its subnational transparency and institutional partnership project across the 36 states of the […]
BudgIT Slams National Assembly For Budget Padding, Corruption Loopholes
BudgIT, a civic-tech organization leading the advocacy for transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public finance system, has called on the citizens, CSOs, private sector, and the international community to urgently prevail on the National Assembly and Presidency to urgently amend and eliminate all loopholes in FG’s 2022 Approved Budget. The civil advocacy organisation reported that […]
Lagos Slides In Fiscal Sustainability Index Ranking, Rivers Tops Chart
The 2018 Fiscal Sustainability Index (FSI) report by BudgIT, a civil organization committed to transparency and accountability in Nigeria’s public finance system, has seen Lagos State, the most economically vibrant state nationwide, losing its ranking by two points, dropping from 2nd position in 2017 to 4th position this year. The FSI analysed the fiscal condition […]
2018 Budget: N/Assembly’s Changes Will Undermine ERGP Targets
BudgIT, a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement, to facilitate societal change, has decried what it termed the masking and insertion of several opaque items in the 2018 budget with little or no bearing on the economy by the National Assembly. The organisation stated in its release issued today […]
BudgIT Urges Nigerians To Demand Open, Transparent Budgets
Worried by the spate of opacity characterising most states’ budget details in the country, BudgIT, a civic tech transparency organisation working on holding government accountable and creating an active citizenry to improve governance, has charged Nigerian citizens to demand from their state governments details of their yearly budgets. The organisation’s charge was sequel to the […]
BudgIT Charges Lagos State Govt To Comply With FOI Act
BudgIT Nigeria, a civic tech organisation working on fiscal transparency, has demanded from the Lagos State Government to make public the cost of the Ikeja Bus Terminal and details of the contracts awarded by it between May 2015 to May this year. In a statement issued by the organisation’s Communication Lead, Abiola Afolabi, to the […]
Nigeria Loses N2.5bn Yearly To Gas Flaring – BudgIT
BudgIT, a civil organization committed to public finance transparency and citizens engagement in public policy, has put Nigeria’s yearly loss to unbridled gas flaring at N2.5 billion. Worried by the ugly development and the negative implications for the nation’s environment, people’s health and revenue potential, the organization advised the Federal Government to deal with the […]
BudgIT Asks FG To Publish Beneficiaries Of N1.4tn Fuel Subsidy
BudgIT, a frontline civil society group committed to public finance transparency in the country, has charged that Federal Government to publicise the real beneficiaries of the yearly N1.4 trillion subsidy payments with a view to ensuring that the expenditures judiciously utilized. The civil society organization lamented that despite the startling disclosures by the Minister of […]
Nigeria Ranks Low in Global Open Budget Index Rating
The Open Budget Index (OBI) survey result for year 2017 has shown that Nigeria’s budgetary process remained very opaque