All is set for President Muhammadu Buhari to present the year 2020
appropriation bill to a joint session of the National Assembly.
This will be the first time the new leaders of the two chambers of the
National Assembly, Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, will host the president
in the parliament.
Messrs Lawan and Gbajabiamila were, in June, elected Senate President and
Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively.
Minister of finance minister Zainab Ahmed said, the federal government will
propose to the National Assembly about N9.79 trillion as total expenditure in
the 2020 budget.
The amount represents an increase of 9.75 per cent over N8.916 trillion
budgeted for 2019.
Unlike the previous year where the president was interrupted intermittently
by lawmakers with jeers and cheers, he will most likely have a warm reception
by the lawmakers.
