The National Assembly has stepped down the 2025 budget for the Ministry of Information and National Orientation.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Information and National Orientation, Senator Kenneth Eze made this known in a viral video on X, Tuesday during the Ministry’s budget defence.
This comes as the committee summoned the minister in charge of the ministry, Mohammed Idris, to appear before it.
He noted that the funding for the ministry, as highlighted by the proposed budget, is nothing to write home about.
Senator Eze stressed that the proposed budget for a ministry as important as Information is a national embarrassment.
“The budget is nothing to write home about. It is more like a national embarrassment to give the ministry what is being budgeted for,”he said