Growing investigative and insightful fortnightly politico newspaper, The New Diplomat has questioned the 2015 N271 billion budget of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

The paper’s Economic Intelligence Team carried out the investigations and findings in the nine constituent-states of the Niger Delta – Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers.

A statement by the Head of Supplements and Special Projects, Mr. Tunji Sanniowo, gave a breakdown of the 2015 budget as follows:

Head Office/Regional Offices: N88,030,000,000; Abia: (N10,155,193,00),

Akwa Ibom: (N40,712,762,909.),

Bayelsa (N28,696,092,624),

Cross River (N9,058,333,333),

Delta (N30,481,173,139.),

Edo (N11,559,522,492.),

Imo (N10,075,925,015),

Ondo (N13,143,026,930),

Rivers (N29,178,057,821), totaling N271, 089, 998,023.00.

The New Diplomat is a fortnightly magazine which prides itself as Nigeria’s global voice in business, political and diplomatic reporting provides a platform for effective interaction between innovation, leadership and public policy.

Some of its Advisory Board writers include award-winning Cambridge University trained Economist, Dr Ayo Teriba; one of Africa’s foremost media Scholars and founding father of Highway Africa in South Africa, Dr Roland Stanbridge, Poet, activist and Lawyer, Dr Ogaga Ifowodo, former Acting Assistant Secretary General at the United Nations(UN) and Harvard trained Economist, Amb Eloho Otobo, and others.

Its mission is to break news and track Afro-centric developments with accuracy and distinctiveness.

http://www.financialwatchngr.com/2016/02/01/new-diplomat-questions-nddcs-n271b-2015-budget/

Nigerians.. where is our 2015 Budget ? abi no budget for 2015 ?

dem don use am ?