Politics
Reps approve N346.5bn for NDDC 2019 budget
The House of Representatives has approved the sum of N346,513,046,220.00 as the total sum for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC for the 2019 fiscal year.
The approval came after the consideration of the commission’s budget proposal by the Committee of the Whole of the House at plenary.
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N19,521,650,000.00 was approved for personnel costs while N12,737,350,000,00 is for overhead expenditure.
Internal capital expenditure will gulp N2,883,046,220.00 just as N311,371,000,000.00 was earmarked for development projects.
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