10 ways to ‘pad’ the Nigerian budget and be a billionaire
By OakTV
10 November 2017 |
9:46 am
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and Abdulmumin Jibrin, has provided a glimpse into how lawmakers routinely make billions of naira by inserting fictitious projects into the national budget each year.
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