Zamfara's Ambivalent Budget of Hope: By Nasir El-Rufai
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- Published on Thursday, 12 July 2012 22:54
- Written by Nasir Ahmad el Rufai
Over the past nine state budgets analyzed, two trends have emerged. There are the few governments interested in making a mark and leaving the state better than they met it by appropriating the state resources wisely and efficiently. They focus on making capital investments and placing solid physical structures and human
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Akwa Ibom’s Budget of Infrastructural Development: by Nasir El-Rufai
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- Published on Thursday, 05 July 2012 22:51
- Written by Nasir Ahmad el Rufai
With Akwa Ibom State, we have finally found a budget that allocates more than 70% to capital expenditure – the recommended minimum to achieve accelerated and meaningful development in an under-developed setting. But is that enough? Or is the quality of spending of the capital budget as important? How about the split
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El rufai: 'Jonathan is useless, Pat Utomi is a bigot'
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- Published on Saturday, 30 June 2012 21:08
- Written by Nasir Ahmad el Rufai
Someone named Nwaokolo Davechux Papigrandi wrote a long comment on my wall. I know such people with no real names and have no faces. They operate out of an office with 30 laptops in Abuja paid a comfortable per-diem to attack anyone on social media who disagrees with the Jonathan administration.
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Nasarawa’s Budget of Social Inclusion - By: Nasir El-Rufai
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- Published on Friday, 29 June 2012 10:27
- Written by Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai
In analyzing fiscal performance across the various regions and political platforms to assess the various state governments in delivering their electoral mandates, our focus this week is on the small, North-Central state of Nasarawa. We took a fortnight’s break to allow for the ventilation of contrasting views on Anambra’s misguided and profoundly dysfunctional budget.
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Anambra - Further Comments on Obi's Misplaced Priorities
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- Published on Friday, 22 June 2012 12:31
- Written by Dr. Chidozie Emenuga
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on 8 June 2012 wrote an article in his Thisday Friday column captioned “Anambra’s Budget of Misplaced Priorities”. The contents of the article are clearly mirrored in the caption, prompting Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State to
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Anambra’s budget of misplaced priorities; by Nasir el Rufai
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- Published on Thursday, 07 June 2012 23:36
- Written by Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai
We continue our budgetary analysis with the South Eastern state of Anambra, with a view to analyze how the state’s budget plans to address development challenges within the state. The state is bounded by Delta to the west, Imo to the South, Enugu to the east, and Kogi to the North. It has a total land mass of 4,416 sq km, is
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Gombe’s Realistic Budget: by Nasir el Rufai
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- Published on Friday, 01 June 2012 11:15
- Written by Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai
Our recent analysis of state budgets across the federation has stirred the interests of many who were hitherto uninterested in how much revenue states earn much less how these resources were spent. These analyses have brought to light the few
