{"id":23108,"date":"2024-03-21T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/senate-approves-n549-6bn-2024-budget-for-ncc\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T07:03:28","slug":"senate-approves-n549-6bn-2024-budget-for-ncc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/senate-approves-n549-6bn-2024-budget-for-ncc\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves N549.6bn 2024 budget for NCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Senate\u2019s Communications Committee, on Wednesday, approved the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, budget of N549.6 billion for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known during a joint Senate and House of Representatives Committee on Communications session chaired by Senator Ikra Bilbis (Zamfara Central).<\/p>\n<p>The committee members unanimously approved the NCC\u2019s N549.6 billion 2024 budget proposal through voice votes following a motion by Senator Tahir Monguno (Borno North) and subsequent ratification by committee chairman Senator Ikra Aliyu.<\/p>\n<p>The committee scrutinized the performance of NCC\u2019s 2023 budget as presented by the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Aminu Maida.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 budget performance report showed an actual revenue of N448.1 billion against a projected budget of N559.080 billion, with total recurrent expenditure at N67.072 billion and capital expenditure at N3.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Maida addressed inquiries from lawmakers on various topics such as security, revenue generation, data protection, and discrepancies found in the 2023 budget report of the NCC.<\/p>\n<p>The EVC informed lawmakers that the NCC aims to avoid relying solely on operator sanctions for revenue generation and is implementing measures to facilitate operators\u2019 compliance with regulatory directives.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that NCC collaborates with national security agencies to create a platform for tracking criminals and addressing security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Steve Karimi, in his remark, commended the NCC\u2019s up-to-date and commendable report, stating that there were no discrepancies in the information provided.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ned Nwoko also highlighted Maida\u2019s impressive credentials and urged him to enhance the operations of the Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers also praised the agency for prudent management of the 2023 revenue, capital, and recurrent expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>Senate approves N549.6bn 2024 budget for NCC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate\u2019s Communications Committee, on Wednesday, approved the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, budget of N549.6 billion for 2024. This was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4170,15,622],"tags":[4172,180,11],"class_list":["post-23108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncc","category-news","category-senate","tag-ncc","tag-news","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}