{"id":740,"date":"2018-05-16T16:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=740"},"modified":"2018-05-16T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:00:30","slug":"senate-passes-2018-n9-1trn-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes 2018 N9.1trn Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after it was laid before a joint session of the National Assembly, the Senate finally passed the 2018 N9.1 trillion appropriation bill, following an increase of N500 billion from the initial N8.6 trillion estimate.<\/p>\n<p>This followed the adoption of the report of its Committee on Appropriation.<\/p>\n<p>The report was laid before the Senate on Tuesday, while the lawmakers considered and adopted it at an extended plenary on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The same version of the report was presented in the Senate and House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari had presented the budget of N8.612trn to the parliament for passage in November 2017; but the National Assembly raised the estimate to N9.12trn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months after it was laid before a joint session of the National Assembly, the Senate finally passed the 2018 N9.1 trillion appropriation bill, following an increase of N500 billion &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}