Federal Government has commenced
preparation for the 2018 budget with the training of budget officers in 800
ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs, across the country.
Speaking at the commencement of the
training exercise in Lagos, Director General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, said that the training was
focused on the use of the Government Integrated Financial Management
Information System, GIFMIS, budget
preparation module, which would be used for the first time to prepare the 2018
budget.
Addressing newsmen at the sidelines
of the event, Supervisory Director, Budget Office, Ibrahim Iddrisu said that Budget preparation
in the last five years has been more or less a manual basis before uploading it
into a GIFMIS system.
Ibrahim explained that the
difference between the 2017 and 2018 budget preparations is the use of GIFMIS
platform, which is seamless.
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