As the National Assembly begins consideration of the N49.7 trillion 2025 budget at the committee level on January 7, the Senate has declared that it will suspend plenary for two weeks upon resumption on January 14.
It has also fixed Thursday this week for an open day on the budget consideration, which will entail inputs from various stakeholders in the polity, aside from heads of the various ministries, departments, and agencies, MDAs.
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola (APC, Ogun West), who stated this during a meeting with chairmen of other standing committees in the Senate, added that January 31, 2025, the date fixed for the laying of reports on the 2025 Appropriation Bill separately before the Senate and the House of Representatives is tentative.
At the meeting, attended by many chairmen of Senate standing committees and principal officers like the Deputy Leader, Senator Lola Ashiru (APC, Kwara South) and Senate Whip, Senator Tahir Monguno (APC, Borno North), it was stated that the time frame for the consideration and passage of the 2025 budget by the National Assembly is short, but the best must be made of it.
