2017 budget: N142bn increase may delay President's assent 'Investigation

After missing its initial target of passing the 2017 budget before the expiration of the 2016 budget on May 5, the National Assembly (NASS) on Thursday, May 11, 2017 passed the 2017 Appropriations Bill, raising the budget from N7.28 trillion earlier proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in December last year, to N7.44 trillion. It view of the increase in the proposed expenditure by N142 billion from N7.298 trillion to N7.44 trillion, there is no guarantee that the executive will not pick issues with the document as it has always happened...The post 2017 budget: N142bn increase may delay President's assent 'Investigation appeared first on New Telegraph Newspapers.
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