The Nasarawa State House of Assembly has passed the 2025 Appropriation Bill of ₦402.57 billion Into law.
The PUNCH reports that the House had jerked the 2025 budget by ₦20 billion against the ₦382.57 billion earlier presented by Governor Abdullahi Sule, making it a total of ₦402.57 billion.
According to the House of Assembly, the increase was due to the importance of some economic codes in the budget and the current inflation in the market.
The Speaker of the House, Danladi Jatau, announced the passage of the bill into law during the House proceedings in Lafia on Friday.
He expressed optimism that the 2025 Appropriation bill if finally assented to by the Governor, would enable the state government to execute more people’s oriented projects for the overall development of the state.
“A Bill For A Law to Issue Out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the State (Appropriation) of the Sum of N402, 567, 843, 592.03 is read for the third term and passed.
“Where N166, 384 435,542.25 as Recurrent Expenditure while N236, 183,408, 049.78 as Capital Expenditure,” he said.
The Speaker, therefore directed the Clerk of the House to provide him with a clean copy of the Bill for his vetting and onward transmission to Governor Sule for his further necessary action.
