{"id":16443,"date":"2023-11-02T14:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16443"},"modified":"2023-11-02T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:22:59","slug":"senate-approves-tinubus-n2-18tn-supplementary-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=16443","title":{"rendered":"Senate Approves Tinubu\u2019s N2.18tn Supplementary Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Senate has passed the N2.18 trillion 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill forwarded to it for consideration by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As requested by Tinubu in the letter read in the Senate during plenary on Tuesday, the request was given expeditious consideration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Similarly, on Thursday, the Red Chamber expressly approved the budget after the Chairman, Senate Committee of Appropriations; Solomon Adeola laid the report at the chamber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The PUNCH had reported that the committee on Appropriations on Wednesday interfaced with the ministers heading the agencies captured in the supplementary budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Ministers include; the Minister of Works, David Umahi; the Minister of Housing, Ahmed Dangiwa and Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari; the Minister of State for Defence, Hon Bello Matawale as well as Service Chiefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details\u00a0later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has passed the N2.18 trillion 2023 Supplementary Appropriation Bill forwarded to it for consideration by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7042,300,7958],"class_list":["post-16443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-president-bola-ahmed-tinubu","tag-senate","tag-supplementary-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443"}],"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=16443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16445,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16443\/revisions\/16445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}