NASS approves N28.77trn, increases 2024 budget by N1.2trn
The National Assembly on Saturday approved the sum of N28.777 trillion in expenditure for the 2024 fiscal year, increasing the budget by N1.2
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The National Assembly on Saturday approved the sum of N28.777 trillion in expenditure for the 2024 fiscal year, increasing the budget by N1.2
Speaker Tajudeen Abbas read the breakdown of the report during plenary.
The Alliance on Surviving Covid-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), a civic group led by human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has given the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) till January 15, 2024, to access the over N68 billion matching grants from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) or face legal action. The group also asked the states and the FCT to register all the estimated 20.2 million out-of-school children in school and urged UBEC to disburse the counterpart funds directly to the state governments and the FCT.
The joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Appropriations are currently putting final touches to the compilation of the 2024
For 18 years, federating states and the federal capital territory of Nigeria, failed to access a whopping N68,737,873,073.52 billion education grant, set