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Nigeria Senate PFIPC Budget

Nigeria 🇳🇬 Elections & Politics

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Nigeria's Senate rejects motions to probe a ₦1.3 billion allocation for the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), stating no petition has been received. Lawmakers claim the appropriation was not for a fake agency.

🇳🇬 Nigeria/English

Senate rejects motion to probe ₦1.3 billion vote for so-called PFIPC in 2026 budget

- Nigeria's Senate rejected a motion to investigate a ₦1.3 billion allocation for the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) in the 2026 budget. - Senators cited that the anti-graft body ICPC is already investigating the matter, and the National Assembly did not insert the funds. - A dissenting senator argued that the appropriation process's credibility is undermined by such a…