The House of Representatives has
jacked up the 2018 budget from the N8.612 trillion figure presented by
President Muhammadu Buhari last November to N9,120,334,988,225.
The details of the budget were
listed on the order paper available at the senate.
The budget was laid by Danjuma
Goje, chairman of the senate appropriation committee.
Yusuf Lasun, speaker of the
house, who presided over Tuesday’s session said the lawmakers will consider and
pass the budget on Wednesday or Thursday.
He said: “We will begin the
consideration tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon and pass it but if we are not able
to, we will finish on Thursday.”
“That the house do receive the
report of the committee on appropriations on a bill for an act to authorize the
issue from the consolidated revenue fund of the federation, the total sum of
N9,120,334,988,225 (Nine Trillion, One Hundred and Twenty Billion, Three
Hundred and Thirty-Four Million, Nine Hundred and Eighty-Eight Thousand, Two
Hundred and Twenty-Five Naira) only,” the order paper seen by NigerianEye read.
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