President Bola Tinubu has signed a N2.17trillion supplementary budget for year 2023 into law.
He assented to the supplementary budget at his office at the Presidential Villa Abuja, in the presence of the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio and Speaker, House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas.
Other lawmakers and top government functionaries who witnessed the signing formalities includes, the Senate Leader, Sen Opeyemi Bamidele; Chairman Senate Committee on Finance, Sen Olamilakan Adeola; Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Abubakar Kabir Abubakar; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu and Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Services, Zachs Adedeji.
The supplementary budget is expected to augment expenditures in the 2023 budget signed by immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari.
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