Nigeria, Dec. 20 -- The Senate, on Thursday, approved N278.4 billion (N278,355,365,947) as the budget of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) for 2020.

This is against the N232.8 billion (N232,875,365,947) proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari a week ago.

It was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Senate committee on FCT.

Of the total budget, N55.8 billion (55,878,241,095) is for personnel cost, N62.3 billion (62,343,723,435) for overhead cost and N160.1 billion (160,133,401,417) for capital projects.

Mr Buhari had proposed N53.9 billion for personnel cost and N57.1 billion for overhead cost.

The FCT had an appropriation of N243.3 in the 2019 fiscal year.

The chairman of the committee, Abubakar Kyari, wh...