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In accordance with the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act and best practices in public finance management, the Federal Government prepares a medium-term expenditure framework every year to review economic performance and make projections for the medium term. The MTEF is the foundational document that undergirds annual budgets. This discourse reviews the economic growth projections…

Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) notes with regret the confirmation by the House of Representatives, that it is taking delivery of Toyota SUVs worth about N130 million each as official vehicles. According to the Chairman, House Committee on Media, Akin Rotimi, the vehicles allocated to the Honourable Members was in accordance with extant procurement law…

Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) is a Knowledge Institution, being a non-governmental, non-profit and non-partisan organisation registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission as a Charity. It was established to introduce professionalism in civil society work and to use social entrepreneurship to provide cutting edge services to enhance and deepen economic, social and political change. It…

The Annual Learning Summit of the Strengthening Civic Advocacy and Local Engagement (SCALE) project, a five-year initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Palladium, has successfully concluded in Abuja. Hosted at the Abuja Continental Hotel (formerly Sheraton Hotel) on September 20th and 21st, 2023, the event brought together…

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) and ActionAid Nigeria have come together to voice their profound concerns over the Federal Government’s recent announcement of a N500 billion-naira palliative distribution. The plan aims to provide N8,000 to 12 million impoverished households in Nigeria over a six-month period. While acknowledging the government’s intent to alleviate poverty and…

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) and Action Aid Nigeria (AAN) alongside the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) have convened top experts, policymakers, and stakeholders, to a one-day Technical Roundtable on Economic Agenda Setting for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Administration in Abuja. Attendees included representatives from diverse Ministries, Departments, Agencies of the Federal Government, the private…