Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, on Tuesday submitted N156.5 billion supplementary appropriation bill for 2024 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly for approval.
Mr Danladi Jatau, the Speaker of the House, announced this during plenary in Lafia.
He said that the supplementary appropriation bill would enable the state government to provide the much needed dividends of democracy to the people of the state.
Mr Suleiman Azara, the Majority Leader of the House, moved a motion for the bill to scale first reading which was seconded by the Deputy Minority Leader, Mr Onarigu Onah Kana.
The Assembly read the bill and unanimously passed it through the first reading.
The News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) recalls that in Dec.2023, the House approved N199.8 billion budget the for 2024 fiscal year.
The supplementary appropriation bill if approved, would take the Nasarawa State Government 2024 budget to N356.5 billion. ( NAN).
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