Senate passes N895bn supplementary budget

The Senate, on Wednesday, passed the N895.842 billion supplementary budget of the federal government.

This followed the consideration of the report of the Committee on Appropriation on the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2021.

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The Appropriation Committee Chairman, Senator Jibrin Barau, presented the report at Plenary.

President Buhari about two weeks ago transmitted a supplementary Appropriation Bill for N895.842,465,917 billion naira to the National Assembly for consideration and approval.

He explained that the proposed amount would be used to fund the COVID-19 vaccine programme; fund health related expenditures for treatment of additional 50,000 patients under the Nigeria Comprehensive AIDS Program in states; and procure additional equipment captured in this year’s capital expenditure on Defence and Security to tackle prevalent security challenges across the country.