Nasarawa Assembly Approves Sule’s N156.6bn Supplementary Budget

Igbawase Ukumba in Lafia

The Nasarawa State House of Assembly yesterday approved the N156.6 billion supplementary budget presented to it by the state Governor, Abdullahi Sule, recently.

The Assembly consequently passed into law the bill for a law to issue out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the state of N156.687, 479,388.94 only (Supplementary/ Amended Appropriation Bill, 2024) for the services of Nasarawa State Government.

Speaker of the Assembly, Danladi Jatau, announced the passage of the bill into law during the House proceedings in Lafia.

Speaker Jatau said the supplementary appropriation bill, if signed into law by the governor, it would give the state government power to complete ongoing projects.

He observed that the executive has achieved a lot in terms of revenue generation in the year under review.

According to him, “The total size of the recurrent expenditure after adjustment stands at N150,310, 075,773.14, whereas, the total size of the capital expenditure will be N206, 256,774,325.22

“The total size of the budget for the year 2024 after adjustment is N356,566,850,098.36.”