The Federal Executive Council, FEC, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari has just approved the proposals for the 2019 budget.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo-Udoma, has disclosed this to State House Correspondents in Abuja. A special session of FEC on the budget ended a few minutes ago.

Udo-Udoma stated that the next stage was to liaise with the National Assembly to pick a date for the presentation of the estimates by Buhari. The Federal Government is proposing N8.6trillion as the budget for next year. – Punch

– Dec. 7, 2018 @ 14:37 GMT |