The Senate Tuesday approved the sum of N8.916 trillion as the budget for the 2019 fiscal year.
The amount passed by the apex legislative chamber is, however, N86 billion higher than the N8.83 trillion initially submitted to the National Assembly in December 2018 for approval by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The upper chamber passed the new budget on Tuesday after Danjuma Goje, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, presented the report of the committee on the floor of the house.
