John Ameh, Abuja
The House of Representatives has said that a clean copy of the 2018 budget will be on the table of President Muhammadu Buhari within one week from the date of passage.
The National Assembly passed the N9.12tn budget on Wednesday last week after the Appropriation Bill had spent more than six months at the legislature.
The final figure was raised by over N508bn from the initial estimates of N8.612tn that the President laid before lawmakers on November 7, 2017.
The Chairman, House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Mr. Abdulrazak Namdas, told our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday that by Wednesday this week, the budget would have been sent to the President.
He explained that there was not much work left to be done on the budget other than for the Senate and House Conference Committees to meet and harmonise the differences in the document.
Namdas explained, “The…
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