House of Reps Queries Low Budgetary Allocation for Departments, Agencies in Foreign Affairs Ministry - Says It Might Limit Performance
Daily Rendezvous - Says Budget Proposals Paltry, Lacks Ambition for Development - Calls for Improvement from Federal Government and the Budget Office Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, have said that the various sums allocated to capital costs in the 2022 budget proposals for Agencies and Departments under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are meagre and therefore appear insensitive to the challenges being faced by those institutions. The Committee made the observation, Wednesday, at the House of Representatives during the defence of the 2022 budget proposals of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) and the Foreign Service Academy ( FSA) ,two major parastatals under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs located in Lagos, Nigeria. Speaking at the end of the budget defence exercise, the heads of these instutions, and the Chairman of the Committee, Rt. Hon.( Dr.) Yusuf Buba Yakub, called on the Federal Government, the Budg...