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Tinubu assents to 2026 ₦68.32tr Appropriation Bill

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Tinubu assents to 2026 Budget

…Extends 2025 Budget President Bola Tinubu has signed the 2026 Appropriation Bill into law, approving a total budget of ₦68.32 trillion. The President also assented to a separate Bill extending the implementation period of the 2025 budget from March 31, 2026, to June 30, 2026. According to a statement issued yesterday by his Senior Special Assistant on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, the 2026 Budget provides ₦4.799 trillion for statutory transfers and ₦15.8 trillion for debt servicing, while recurrent expenditure is projected at ₦15.4 trillion. A total of ₦32.2 trillion…

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‘Kano-Maradi rail line will integrate Nigeria, Niger economies’ ? President Bazoum

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President Mohamed Bazoum of the Niger Republic on a State visit to Nigeria has affirmed that the Kano-Katsina-Maradi railway line being undertaken by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration will integrate the economies of the two countries when operational. Speaking to newsmen after he met with the Nigerian president at the Presidential Villa, Abuja yesterday, he expressed the hope that the implementation of the project will be sustained. The visit enabled the two leaders to deliberate on how to tackle challenges of security and strategic stability affecting the sub-region and the…

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