The Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) has lamented a 31 per cent cut in its 2019 budget, insisting that such will only double its serially increasing debt burden from one year to another.

According to the NNMA, prior to the slash, the allocation from the federal government alone was grossly inadequate to meet its statutory demands, adding that with the shortfall, the agency will hardly survive 2019 without encountering financial hardship.


Chairman of the governing board, Prof Shekarau Yakubu Aku who stated this in Abuja at the opening ceremony of the 11th forum of the laureates of the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) themed, “The Imperative of Unity in Diversity”.

He said the slash will further create untold hardship to the agency in fulfilling its mandate, and called on the federal government to give legal backing on the proposed NNMA policy group.

The group, he maintained, has the ability to assist government at all levels in policy implementation and programmes.

Aku said: “It is unfortunate also that the cut down of NNMA’s capital budget for year 2019 by 31 per cent will further create untold hardship on achieving the core mandate of the NNMA.

“The allocation from the federal government alone is grossly inadequate to meet the needs of the NNMA, so the agency hardly survives in a year without facing pronounced financial hardship that frequently threatens its core mandate, which creates a serially correlated debt burden from one year to the next,” he said.

Meanwhile, after a rigorous screening exercise by the board, only one winner emerged as the 2018 recipient of the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM).

The awardee in all the categories namely humanities, science, medicine, engineering and technology, is Prof. Olufemi Obafemi, a creative writer, critic, dramatist as well as a theatre director.

Aku said due to the strictness employed, many were not configured and so did not apply, noting that nominations had not dropped but that those who submitted themselves were below what was expected.

“The process of selection is very rigorous. The nominees must support with the evidence of their work that has been researched and this is quite an expensive exercise,” he added.

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Watin all this people they use the money do self
Civil servant n public servants Don turn corruption it's o

Stealing is no more corruption

Tivs!!

Wow

White elephant awards that rewards the old cargoes that ruined this country. Good. Kuku scrap the whole shyt jor.

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Stealing is no more corruption

Bro the chairman is complaining in of a 31% slash in "Capital" budget.
I think the 2019 budget is the biggest budget in the history of this nation, yet the claims by this agency shows the reality on ground.

The funding and implementation of the 2019 budget will be a very big problem and I doubt if it'll be implemented even up to 50%,since that of 2017 and 2018 was under 60% implementation.

Our reoccurring expenditures is out weighting our capital expenditures, a big danger for true sustainable development.

So many MDA's ought to be merged or scraped and the cost of governance reduce for use to meet up significant with the budget implementation, in terms of capital and human development.

God Bless Nigeria.

I LOVE MY COUNTRY BUT I'M ASHAMED OF OUR LEADERS!

AceRoyal:

Bro the chairman is complaining in of a 31% slash in "Capital" budget.
I think this is the biggest budget in the history of this nation, yet the claims by this agency shows the reality on ground.

The funding and implementation of this budget will be a very big problem and I doubt if it'll be implemented even up to 50%,since that of 2017 and 2018 was under 60% implementation.
Our reoccurring expenditures is out weighting our capital expenditures, a big danger for true sustainable development.

God Bless Nigeria.
I LOVE MY COUNTRY BUT I'M ASHAMED OF OUR LEADERS!

You have made some very good points in all you said and we respect your views as always bro.
God bless Nigeria.

I was thinking is NEMA.
They should have cut the budget by 50%.
We are not feeling the impact of this agency as such.
They should have integrate them into another agency na.
NNMA work is majorly screening and award.

AceRoyal:

Bro the chairman is complaining in of a 31% slash in "Capital" budget.
I think this is the biggest budget in the history of this nation, yet the claims by this agency shows the reality on ground.

The funding and implementation of this budget will be a very big problem and I doubt if it'll be implemented even up to 50%,since that of 2017 and 2018 was under 60% implementation.

Our reoccurring expenditures is out weighting our capital expenditures, a big danger for true sustainable development.

So many MDA's ought to be merged or scraped and the cost of governance reduce for use to meet up significant with the budget implementation, in terms of capital and human development.

God Bless Nigeria.

I LOVE MY COUNTRY BUT I'M ASHAMED OF OUR LEADERS!

Dude, The man is complaining about 31% cut in NNMA’s capital budget not the whole national budget.

What capital infrastructure does an agency that gives awards to rogues that rules and spoiled nigeria before need.

Good

The budget of Nigeria is a mere document.

jomoh:


Dude, The man is complaining about 31% cut in NNMA’s capital budget not the whole national budget.

What capital infrastructure does an agency that gives awards to rogues that rules and spoiled nigeria before need.

Did you read my whole write up or you chose to read only the first sentence?

Why are they lamenting. Whi

The allocation from the federal government alone is grossly inadequate to meet the needs of the NNMA, so the agency hardly survives in a year without facing pronounced financial hardship that frequently threatens its core mandate which creates a serially correlated debt burden from one year to the next,” he said.


Let thee bringforth thy mandate, alas, we Nigerians justifieth the slash suffereth unto thee. KJV version.

AceRoyal:


Did you read my whole write up or you chose to read only the first sentence?

I did and didn’t see where you differentiated between the two.

Maybe if you explained the statement below further or rather rephrase it, it would make your whole comment to be less ambiguous.

yet the claims by this agency shows the reality on ground.

All of you chanting sai baba because of #30,000 that can't recharge the phones of these politicians' girlfriends, should think about your unborn children, and what the future holds for us. Also think about the millions who go to bed hungry because of the state of things right now in this country. Like Esau, don't sell your birthright for a pot of porridge!

jomoh:


Dude, The man is complaining about 31% cut in NNMA’s capital budget not the whole national budget.

What capital infrastructure does an agency that gives awards to rogues that rules and spoiled nigeria before need.

You confused NNMA with National Honours Committee which is under the office of the Secretary to Govt of the Federation.

Nonsense journalism

How much was the budget slashed from and what is now left...

2n2k:


You confused NNMA with National Honours Committee which is under the office of the Secretary to Govt of the Federation.

Na wa o


So which one be National Merit Awards again abi no be aware dem dey give.


I sha know dem no dey construct roads.

jomoh:



Na wa o


So which one be National Merit Awards again abi no be aware dem dey give.


I sha know dem no dey construct roads.

NNMA gives merit award to outstanding academics, usually one or two persons (mostly professors) per year.

National Honours Committee make recommendation to the President on the award of national honours - those GCFR, MON, CON and the rest.

I responded initially because you said NNMA gives award to rogues who have ruled Nigeria before

In fact, they should SCRAP the award altogether.

Why do we need to build an entire BUREAUCRACY over a honorarium to one or two persons per year? I bet you that every member of the governing board has an official car and official accommodation in Abuja, plus expense accounts, while the members of the senior management each have both plus other “entitlements” (including estacode). That’s why the Nigerian government spends more than N3 out of every N4 that it earns or borrows on so-called recurrent expenditures. SMH