Nigeria’s Bicameral legislature on Thursday passed the 2017 budget, raising the budget from N7.28 billion earlier proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in December last year, to N7.44 trillion.

While the Senate passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill with a total budget estimate of ₦7,441,175,486,758, the House of Representatives did the same after adopting the report from the appropriation committee on the budget.

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