Tag: 2017 Budget
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I will sign 2017 budget when satisfied with content – Acting President, Osinbajo affirms
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said he will assent the 2017 budget when the Senate transmits it to the Presidency and its content are satisfactory enough. This was revealed by the acting President’s spokesperson, Laolu Akande in apparent reaction to some newspaper reports quoting Minister of Information and Culture that the government was…
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Osinbajo to receive 2017 budget from N’assembly today
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo may receive the 2017 budget from the National Assembly today. A source reportedly disclosed to Punch newspaper that the Legal Department of the National Assembly has concluded its work on the budget and now set to send it to the Presidency on Wednesday morning. “We have been in communication with the…
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Acting President, Osinbajo reviews 2017 budget
The Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is currently reviewing the 2017 budget. The Senior special assistant to the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo on Media and publicity, Laolu Akande stated this on Monday in a statement on his twitter handle @akandeoj. Laolu revealed that the acting president is presiding over a meeting with the economic…
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Construction of second Abuja Airport runway captured in 2017 budget – Lawan
Senate Leader Ahmed Lawan said on Friday that the National Assembly (NASS) captured new projects, including a second runway for the Abuja Airport, in the 2017 appropriation bill it passed. Lawan told state House Correspondents that the projects were covered from the difference in the N42.5 oil bench mark proposed by the Executive and the…
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2017 budget will galvanise economic growth – legislator
The 2017 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly will galvanise economic growth and pull the country out of recession, Dr Abubakar Amuda-Kannike, member House of Representatives, has said. Amuda-Kannike (APC-Oyo state), made the statement on Friday in Abuja in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in his reaction to the passage…
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National Assembly passes 2017 budget
The National Assembly has passed the 2017 Appropriations Bill, raising the budget from N7.28 billion earlier proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in December last year, to N7.44 trillion. The Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives separately presented their harmonised reports of the budget for consideration and subsequent passage on Thursday. According…
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#OpenNass: Nigerians hail Saraki, Dogara for unveiling NASS budget, ending 8-yr of secrecy
The National Assembly, Thursday, for the first time, published the details of its budget, beginning with the 2017 budget, to underscore transparency as earlier promised by the President of the 8th Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Reacting to the recent landmark, some Nigerians who expressed their views on the internet hailed the law making body and…
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Breaking: Reps pass 2017 budget
The House of Representatives today passed the 2017 budget of N7.441 trillion. The lawmakers, who commenced the consideration of the report of the appropriation committee at 12:15.pm, passed the budget at exactly 1.pm. The budget figure, TheNewsGuru.com lerant was increased by N143 billion from the N7.298trn proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari to N7.441trn. It was…
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2017 Budget: Senate in closed session
The senate is currently in a closed door session ahead of the passage of the 2017 budget. Recall that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had on Tuesday shortly after the budget report was laid said it will be considered and passed today. However, shortly after taking prayers on Thursday, Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani,…
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JUST IN: National Assembly raises 2017 budget by N143bn
The House of Representatives on Tuesday received the report of 2017 N7.30tn Appropriation Bill from its Committee on Appropriation for final consideration. The report indicated that the committee increased the budget to N7.44tn, representing an addition of about N143bn to the one presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on Dec. 14, 2016. After the receipt of…