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Receipt Of 2018 Budget Confirmed By The Presidency

Published

25 May 2018

9:22 PM

Presidency confirms receipt of 2018 Budget

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, confirmed the receipt of the 2018 Appropriation Bill from the National Assembly at about 8.30pm on Friday.

I have received the budget on behalf of the Presidency. I am transmitting it now,” the presidential aide simply said.

With the development, officials of the Executive arm of government are expected to scrutinise the document alongside the one submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly last year.

The scrutiny will be done on ministry-by-ministry basis after which the Ministry of Budget and National Planning will then advise the President whether to sign the bill into law or return it to the National Assembly for amendment.

The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, had earlier said that the National Assembly would send the 2018 Appropriation Bill to President Muhammadu Buhari today unfailingly .