Unic Press UK: Senate, the upper house of Nigeria’s bicameral legislature, has passed an ₦8.91 trillion budget for 2019, increasing it by ₦86 billion given that President Muhammadu Buhari had, in December 2018, presented a spending plan of ₦8.83 trillion for the 2019 fiscal year.
“I hope that with this Budget passed, the Executive will also ensure the full implementation of the Budget for the benefit of Nigerians as a whole,” the Senate president Bukola Saraki said during plenary Tuesday.
The passed budget would be sent to the president, whose assent is needed for the passed budget to become a law.