Breaking: National Assembly fixes April 24 to pass 2018 budget

Breaking: National Assembly fixes April 24 to pass 2018 budget

The National Assembly has announced that the 2018 budget will be passed on Tuesday, April 24.

The speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, made the announcement during the plenary session of the lower chamber.

Legit.ng gathered that Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed on this position, adding that the budget would be laid on April 19 and passed on April 24.

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According to an earlier report by Legit.ng, Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday, March 2, exonerated the executive from the delay in passage of the 2018 Appropriation Bill, adding that it had fulfilled its part by presenting the budget proposals to the National Assembly in the first week of November 2017, Daily Trust reports.

The vice president in an interview with journalists in Lagos said since the appropriation bill was still in the National Assembly, there was very little the executive could do to control that. He said the executive was waiting for the legislature to pass the budget.

The vice chairman of the Senate committee on appropriations, Sunny Ogbuoji, last week, blamed ministers and heads of federal government agencies for delay in passage of the budget.

Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered all ministries, departments and agencies of the government to submit details of the 2018 budget estimate to the National Assembly. The president in his order gave a two-day ultimatum to the MDAs, Daily Trust reports.

He said the budget estimates must be submitted to the National Assembly not later than Friday, March 23.

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Source: Legit.ng

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