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National Assembly may pass 2018 budget on Thursday
Barring last minute changes, the National Assembly would receive the report on the 2018 budget from its joint Committee on Appropriation tomorrow (Wednesday), The PUNCH learnt on Monday.
Investigations indicated that the laying of the N8.612tn budget would be preparatory to its possible passage on Thursday.
A parliamentary source informed The PUNCH correspondent in Abuja on Monday, “We will be in May on Tuesday; that means the country will run out of the 2017 budget in a matter of weeks. Members have come under pressure; they have had to work very hard in the past days to ensure that the report is ready”.
“The blame of the delay in the passage of the budget is both on the Executive and partly the legislature.”
The Punch, May 1, 2018
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