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Administration of Cabotage Vessel Financing Funds (CVVF) in Nigeria: Issues for Legislative Consideration
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-09)
Administration of Cabotage Vessel Financing Funds (CVVF) in Nigeria: Issues for Legislative Consideration
(National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies National Assembly, 2018-09)
Recently, there has been concerns with the administration of the Cabotage Vessel
Financing Fund (CVFF) in Nigeria. Section 44 of the Cabotage Act provides that the
fund shall be collected by the National Maritime Authority ...
Crude Oil Benchmark and the 2018 FGN Budget: Need for a Petroleum Revenue Heritage Fund in Nigeria
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-07)
Despite several efforts to diversify Nigeria’s revenue base, the annual budget of the Federal Government has continued to rely on revenue from crude oil sources. Bearing in mind that crude oil is a non-renewable energy ...
Federal Government Special Economic Zones (SEZs) Policy: Issues for Legislative Action
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-03)
As part of its effort to drive its diversification agenda, the Federal Government of Nigeria announced its plan to set up 6 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) across the country. The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment ...
Effect of the National Assembly on the 2018 FGN Budget: Implication for Sectoral Performance
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-07)
On June 20th 2018, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria signed the 2018 Appropriation Bill of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN). This data brief examines the structure of the budget 2018 budget vis-à-vis ...
Executive Orders, Policy Implementation and the Role of the National Assembly
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-02)
The use of Executive orders by the President Mohammadu Buhari administration has become a regular point of interjection in the country’s economic management toolkit. Whether or not these executive orders are effective in ...
FGN 2018Q1 Revenue Performance: Implication for 2018 Budget Implementation
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-10)
As government revenue performance for 2018Q1 falls below expectation by 22.85%, poor implementation of FGN 2018 budget implementation is imminent. Unfortunately, the nation’s debt sustainability indices, would not make ...
INECs House to House PVC Distribution Policy in Nigeria: Issues and Way Forward
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-09)
Although Nigeria has favourable ranking in the support of democracy amongst other African nations, support for democracy in Nigeria based on survey conducted within 1999 to 2015 shows that the support declined from 80.9% ...
Legislature – Judiciary Relations and Budget Implementation in Nigeria: 2005 – 2017
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-02)
The principle of checks and balance requires that the three arms of government are autonomous and operate as a watch dog to one another. This relationship can however, be dampened when the financial autonomy of these organs ...
South Africa’s 2018Q1 Economic Recession Report: Lessons for Nigeria
(Department of Economic and Social Research, 2018-09)
For the first time since 2009 South Africa is experiencing a technical recession. The contractions have the poor performance of other emerging economies. 2. Others have noted that investment in manufacturing and development ...