The presentation of the N47.9 trillion 2025 budget by President Bola Tinubu to a joint session of the National Assembly, originally scheduled for Tuesday, December 17, has been postponed to Wednesday, December 18.
Our correspondent in the Senate reliably gathered this information from senior National Assembly officials. An official statement regarding the postponement is expected to be issued shortly.
During the Thursday plenary, Senate President Godswill Akpabio had announced that President Tinubu would present the 2025 budget on Tuesday.
He said, “The president has made his intention known to the National Assembly to present the 2025 budget to the joint Assembly of the National Assembly on the 17th of December, 2024.”
Akpabio announced that the budget presentation will occur at the House of Representatives Chamber.
He also informed lawmakers that plenary would begin at 10:30 a.m. to allow senators to convene in the Red Chamber before proceeding in a procession to the House of Representatives chamber for the budget presentation.
Last month, President Tinubu submitted the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper for 2025–2027 to both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
