International records / OpenAlex research

10.51847/fZTXX1niGH

Since 1999 when democratic norms became the principle of state policy, delayed passage of Nigeria's annual national budget has become unduly too frequent.The timely passage of the 2013 budget seemed to have broken the jinx of lateness.The objective of this paper is to examine the impacts of the delays and their implications for Nigeria's budgetary process.This is because after months of delays, debates, shocking discoveries of alleged 'padding' and correction of omissions, the National Assembly has passed and the Presidency signed the 2016 Appropriation Bill totaling N6.06 trillion.The amount …