From my understanding of this article, to put the ongoing practice of debt-financed recurrent expenditure on firmer legal footing, the Federal Government is seeking a new law to explicitly authorise this:

ABUJA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Nigeria’s government has asked parliament to amend its spending law to enable a debt program to settle 2.7 trillion naira ($8.6 bln) worth of obligations including pensions and salary arrears, according to a letter from Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

The letter, read out in the Senate on Tuesday, requested amendments to the law, which stipulates allocation of government spending, to allow Nigeria to fund recurrent expenditure from proceeds of the debt rather than just capital projects.

Nigeria’s Fiscal Responsbility Act states that proceeds of government borrowings can only be applied towards capital expenditure. Osinbajo said the amendment was to provide the legal backing for the use of the debt to meet the obligations.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/nigeria-economy/update-1-nigeria-asks-senate-to-amend-law-for-govt-to-settle-2-7-trillion-naira-debt-idUKL8N1M75UC

We have dead in diz country.. By d tym dis govt finish with us, we'ld b begging a fellow African country to colonize us... So we have to borrow to fund both capital and recurrent projects How do we pay back??

Yet more evidence of this government's financial recklessness and unwillingness to entertain any serious efforts at undertaking fundamental reforms. Instead of downsizing a bloated and highly dysfunctional state, their answer is to borrow to fund the salaries of people who mostly lie around doing nothing but gossiping or soliciting bribes, when they bother to show up at all for "work"?

If GEJ was a failure, Buhari has been no better; any possible improvement he has overseen in the scale of large-scale corruption has been more than undone by the rank economic illiteracy of his government. Unfortunately, Nigeria's dysfunctional political system is unlikely to turn up anything better than this sick, uneducated old coup-plotter until 2023 at the earliest.

Nigeria's APC sef

Borrow borrow government

Borrow to pay salaries......wow this must be one joke from Basket Mouth.