{"id":189355,"date":"2020-01-29T22:41:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=189355"},"modified":"2020-01-29T22:41:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:41:54","slug":"nigerian-govt-issues-warning-to-nnpc-firs-npa-customs-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=189355","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian govt issues warning to NNPC, FIRS, NPA, Customs, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has warned revenue generating agencies to comply with the Fiscal Responsibility Act for transparency, fiscal prudence and accountability in the management of public funds.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Victor Muruako, the Acting Chairman of the Commission, said this at a two-day training on \u201cFiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) 2007 for the management and staff of the Nigerian Immigration Service on Wednesday in Keffi.<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that Muruako said that the aim of the capacity building workshop was to enlighten and educate the relevant agencies of the provisions of the Fiscal Responsibility Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also to strengthen their compliance level, particularly so that they can conform with the template for calculation of operating surplus, which is the standard document produced by the commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe template provides for allowable and disallowable expenditures from these agencies, it also clear the issues on remittances to the Consolidated Revenue Funds of the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to ensure that the relevant revenue earning agencies of the Federal Government including Nigerian Immigration Service make their own contributions to the Consolidated Revenue Funds of Federal Government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the commission is also working hard to ensure that these agencies submit their audited account on time in line with the provisions of FRA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is part of our efforts to support the efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the revenue profile of the Federal Government is strengthened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Some revenue generating agencies are the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) has warned revenue generating agencies to comply with the Fiscal Responsibility Act for transparency, fiscal prudence and accountability in the management of public funds. Mr Victor Muruako, the Acting Chairman of the Commission, said this at a two-day training on \u201cFiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) 2007 for the management and staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,5092],"class_list":["post-189355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-nnpc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/189356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}