President Muhammadu Buhari has signed over 30 bills passed by the National Assembly into law since assuming office in 2015, his Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang, said on Wednesday during a chat with newsmen.
President Muhammad Buhari has presented a 2017 budget proposal of N7.298 trillion before the joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Presidency has promised to pay members of the Super Falcons the allowances owed them by the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, after winning the African Women Cup of Nations, AWCON, in Cameroun.
The Senate has approved the sum of N213 billion to augment the shortfalls in the 2016 budget for the funding of critical Recurrent and Capital items of the budget.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he will be more thorough in scrutinizing the 2017 budget in order to ensure that the ugly cases of budget padding that characterized the 2016 document do not come again.