{"id":79942,"date":"2025-12-10T06:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79942"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:03:23","slug":"bago-submits-revised-budget-key-appointments-to-niger-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/bago-submits-revised-budget-key-appointments-to-niger-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bago Submits Revised Budget, Key Appointments to Niger Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago on Tuesday presented a revised budget and a list of key appointments to the State House of Assembly for consideration.<\/p>\n<p>The submission includes a supplementary budget and fiscal adjustments aimed at addressing rising inflation, subsidy removal, and the impact of currency devaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also forwarded nominees for major positions, including Auditor-General, for screening and confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have begun deliberations on the proposals, which are expected to shape the state\u2019s development priorities under Bago\u2019s \u201cNew Niger\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n<p>While supporters describe the move as a necessary response to shifting economic realities and a step toward stronger governance, critics interpret it as a potential avenue for political realignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago on Tuesday presented a revised budget and a list of key appointments to the State House of Assembly for consideration. The submission includes a supplementary budget and fiscal adjustments aimed at addressing rising inflation, subsidy removal, and the impact of currency devaluation. The governor also forwarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79944,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79942\/revisions\/79944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}