A total of 27 Nigerian Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) appear to have padded the 2017 budget by up to 6.44 percent of the N7 trillion estimate, data obtained by BudgetIT show. The MDAs have budgeted for items that look suspicious, prone to fraud, outrageous, and frivolous, worth N466 bi
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