The passage of the 2017 Appropriation Bill by the National Assembly has suffered a setback, The PUNCH has learnt.
It was reliably gathered on Tuesday that the March 8 date set for the standing committees of both chambers of the National Assembly to submit their reports on the 2017 budget was no longer feasible.
Both the Senate and the House of Representatives had suspended plenary for three weeks to conduct budget defence sessions for the government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
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