The Senate will, on Thursday, pass the N2.18 trillion 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill forwarded to it for consideration by President Bola Tinubu. As requested by the President in the letter read in the Senate during plenary on Tuesday, the request was given expeditious consideration. The budgetary proposals were debated, passed for a second reading, and the Committee on Appropriations mandated …

A breakdown of the N20.51 trillion Appropriation Bill which President Muhammadu Buhari presented to the National Assembly on Friday shows that the Presidency will spend over N133.7 billion next year, while the National Assembly has an allocation of about N169 billion; and the Judiciary about N150 billion. From the proposed N20.51 trillion – the highest national budget ever – the …