President Buhari ‘ready’ to sign Budget on Friday

All things being equal, President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the 2016 Appropriation Bill into law on Friday. A source, who spoke on a condition of anonymity on Thursday, said the President is now “ready” to sign the budget on Friday.

According to him, a clean copy has been sent to the Presidency from the National Assembly. He said: “All things being equal, the President will on Friday assent the 2016 Budget.”

“The two committees have finished their work and a clean copy is now with the Presidency.”

For the Third Time, Buhari returns budget to National Assembly

FOR the third time, the 2016 Appropriation Bill has been returned as President Muhammadu Buhari was said to have picked holes in the re-worked budget and returned it to the National Assembly for further legislative work.

It was reliably gathered that the re-worked budget was sent to the President at about 1.15 am, yesterday, but was returned to the National Assembly at about noon, yesterday.

It was also gathered that principal officers and members of the review committee from both legislative chambers met, yesterday, at about 3.20pm till about 5.30pm in the Senate wing to reconsider the observations made by the President on the budget.

Nigerians Would Soon Begin To Smile, Says Buhari's Aide

Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, has said that his office had taken delivery of a preview copy of the revised 2016 Appropriation Bill.

Enang, who spoke to New Telegraph, gave assurance that Nigerians would soon smile, an indication that the processes must have largely been concluded by the Panel set up to clean up the budget.

His words: “We are just about to take delivery of the first copy for preview from the Committee of the National Assembly. We are like walking very closely to the end of the exercise.