Nigeria, July 22 -- The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved N1.485 trillion as the Rivers State budget for the 2025 fiscal year.
The approval followed the consideration and adoption of a report presented by the House Ad-hoc Committee on Rivers State during plenary.
The Appropriation Bill, titled "A Bill for an Act to Authorise the issue from the Rivers State Government Statutory Revenue Fund of the Rivers State Account, the total sum of N1.485 trillion, for the year ending 31 December 2025," was read for the third time and passed.
It is the first budget of the state since it came under emergency rule about four months ago.
President Bola Tinubu, had on 18 March, declared a state of emergency in the oil-rich state to arrest th...
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