{"id":4982,"date":"2020-03-25T05:41:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2020-03-25T05:41:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:41:20","slug":"covid-19-zulum-brazes-up-for-economic-downturn-sets-up-team-to-increase-bornos-igr-says-2020-budget-will-be-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=4982","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Zulum brazes up for economic downturn, sets up team to increase Borno\u2019s IGR   &#8230; Says 2020 budget will be reviewed\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Covid-19: Zulum brazes up for economic downturn, sets up team to increase Borno\u2019s IGR<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>&#8230; Says 2020 budget will be reviewed\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>In preparation for impacts from global economic downturn due to covid-19 pandemic and fall in Nigeria\u2019s oil revenue, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has set up a team with mandate of increasing Borno\u2019s internally generated revenue through innovations, fiscal discipline, blocking of leakages and priority funding.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>The Governor announced the team on Tuesday in Maiduguri, to be chaired by his economic adviser, Alhaji Mustapha Bulu with members that include Permanent Secretaries in ministries of finance, trade and investment, environment, transport, health, water resources as well as general managers of the state\u2019s housing and water cooperation. Chairman of the state Board of internal revenue will serve as the team\u2019s Secretary.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>He said the team is to block all leakages in revenues accruing to the state and to harness all increase internal revenue.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Governor Zulum also announced in Maiduguri that the state Executive Council will review the 2020 budget given the fall in oil price which could make projected revenue from the federation account potentially impossible as a result of drop from more than <span class=\"money\">$50<\/span>\u00a0bench mark to less than\u00a0<span class=\"money\">$30<\/span>\u00a0being the price at the moment.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Zulum said a revised budget will be sent to the assembly in which less revenue will be projected from the federation account while some projects will be set aside with government to focus on funding priority projects.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19: Zulum brazes up for economic downturn, sets up team to increase Borno\u2019s IGR &#8230; Says 2020 budget will be reviewed\u00a0 In preparation for impacts from global economic downturn due to covid-19 pandemic and fall in Nigeria\u2019s oil revenue, Governor Babagana Umara Zulum has set up a team with mandate of increasing Borno\u2019s internally generated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Covid-19: Zulum brazes up for economic downturn, sets up team to increase Borno\u2019s IGR  ... 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