President Bola Tinubu has shifted presentation of the N47.9trillion 2025 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly (NASS) earlier scheduled for Tuesday, December 17, 2024.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the 2025 budget presentation by President Tinubu was shifted shifted to Wednesday, December 18, 2024 after Senate President Godswill Akpabio disclosed the earlier schedule.
Information on a day postponement of the 2025 budget presentation by the President was authoritatively gathered from top management staff of the National Assembly.
The highly placed source said official statement on the postponement shall be issued within the next few hours.
Recall that on November 14, the federal government proposed N47.9 trillion as the total expenditure in the 2025 budget.
Tinubu later submitted the medium-term expenditure framework and fiscal strategy paper (MTEF/FSP) for 2025–2027 to both the senate and the house of representatives on November 19.
The MTEF/FSP are parameters any budget of the country is premised on and also serve as a projection of a three-year spending plan of the federal government.
On December 3, the Senate approved the MTEF/FSP ahead of the consideration of the 2025 budget proposal.
In the MTEF/FSP, the key parameters include a 75 dollar oil price benchmark per barrel, daily oil production of 2.06 million barrels per day (bpd), an exchange rate of N1,400 to one dollar and a targeted gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 6.4 per cent .
The expenditure framework also has a new borrowing plan of N9.22 trillion which constitutes both domestic and foreign borrowings.