Information Ministry to Spend N661m on Travelling/Refreshment

As Nigerians expect quick recovery of the country from the economic recession,  it is also expected that the Federal Government would drive the recovery plan by blocking all leakages in the nation’s budget implementation.

But this seems not to be in the plans of the Minister of Information and Culture, which has proposed to spend N661,006,782 million on travelling and transportation, refreshment and miscellaneous in the 2017 fiscal year.

The amount is part of the N49,464,302,080billion allocated to the ministry from  the N7.3 trillion appropriation bill for 2017 currently before the National Assembly.

A breakdown of the amount showed that the sum of N273,706,901m is allocated to travelling and transportation, N347, 299,681 to miscellaneous, whereas N40m will be spent on refreshment in the fiscal year.

Source: Vanguard