The Federal Government says that the 2018
budget proposal will be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration
and passage as was already promised.
Minister of Budget and Economic Planning,
Udoma Udo Udoma gave the assurance while
briefing newsmen yesterday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja where members of
the Federal Executive Council were having a retreat on the 2018 budget.
He said that the delay in the presentation
of the budget estimate to the National Assembly was as a result of the annual
vacation the lawmakers had embarked on.
The minister also said that the
focus of the retreat with the theme : Building
Synergy For Effective Economic Recovery Growth Plan, Implementation, was to
review the Economic Recovery Growth Plan, ERGP, of the Federal Government as
well as the performance of the 2017 budget.
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