Buhari sacks his budget director

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the director general of the government's budget office, Yahaya Gusau, over his handling of the current budget proposal.
He has been in the job for six months.
This comes after several questions being raised over the 2016 budget which the president announced at the end of last year.
There have been accusations that some ministries inflated their budget allocations. Mr Gusau has been replaced by Tijjani Abdullahi.
Sorting out Nigeria’s $31bn budget is a gargantuan task, but the budget chief was sacked after typographical errors and other anomalies were spotted.
Some civil servants, dubbed the “budget mafia”, are accused of inflating the budget for their ministries, things that should have been spotted before the budget was submitted to the parliament in December.
Part of the problem was that the budget was rushed as it had to be submitted before 2016 – and some ministries filed late.
It has already been recalled once to amend some obvious errors, so this is all an embarrassment for President Muhammadu Buhari.
MPs set a deadline of 25 February to pass it but given the problems it is not likely to happen till March.
Nigeria’s parliament has to scrutinise and pass the budget before it can be implemented.