{
  "id": 641441,
  "title": "Put military budget on first-line charge, Ndume tells FG",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/put-military-budget-on-first-line-charge-ndume-tells-fg",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-12T05:19:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Trust",
    "slug": "daily-trust",
    "url": "https://dailytrust.com/put-military-budget-on-first-line-charge-ndume-tells-fg/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Senator Ali Ndume (Borno South) has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to place the annual budget of the Nigerian Armed Forces on First-Line Charge to eliminate bureaucratic delays in funding military operations. Ndume, a former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, said the current envelope budgeting system had created unnecessary bottlenecks between the defence […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}