{"id":16374,"date":"2023-10-31T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2023-10-31T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:07:43","slug":"tinubu-writes-reps-seeks-approval-of-n2-1trn-supplementary-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16374","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Writes Reps, Seeks Approval Of N2.1trn Supplementary Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President Bola Tinubu has written the House of Representatives seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The President also sent the 2024-2026 Medium Term Expenditure Framework &amp; Fiscal Strategy Paper to the House of Representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">On Monday, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2023\/10\/30\/fg-approves-n2-1-trillion-as-2023-supplementary-budget\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">approved<\/a> the 2023 supplementary budget of N2.1 trillion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">While speaking after the FEC meeting in Abuja, the Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu, said the budget is to fund urgent issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe council considered a request for supplementary appropriation which is a second for 2023,\u201d he said at the State House in Abuja.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cAnd graciously approved the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as supplementary budget and this supplementary budget is to fund urgent issues including N605 billion for national defence and security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThis is to sustain the gains made in security and to accelerate and these are funds that are needed by the security agencies before the year runs out. \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has written the House of Representatives seeking the approval of the sum of N2,176,791,286,033 as 2023 supplementary budget to address labour wage adjustments, security and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7042,461,7958],"class_list":["post-16374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-president-bola-ahmed-tinubu","tag-reps","tag-supplementary-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16376,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions\/16376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}