{"id":1307,"date":"2023-07-12T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2023-07-12T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:26:10","slug":"breaking-president-tinubu-write-nass-seeking-n500bn-for-palliatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/2023\/07\/12\/breaking-president-tinubu-write-nass-seeking-n500bn-for-palliatives\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: President Tinubu write NASS, seeking N500bn for palliatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has written to the National Assembly seeking amendment to the 2022 supplementary appropriation Act to allow the Federal Government source N500 billion for palliative to cushion the effect of subsidy removal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In a letter read on the floor of the House during Wednesdays plenary by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, the President said the money will be sourced from the 2022 supplementary Appropriation Act of N819. 5 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The letter titled: \u201cRequest for the amendment of the 2022 appropriation act\u201d reads in part: \u201cI write to request the approval of the House of Representatives an amendment of the 2022 appropriation act in accordance with the law.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThe request has become necessary in other to source for funds to provide necessary palliatives to cushion the effect of the recent removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThe sum of N500 billion only has been extracted from the 2022 appropriation act of N819.536 for tht provision of palliatives to Nigerians to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal. I expect that the House will speedily consider the request\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Speaker said the House will consider the President\u2019s request at plenary on Thursday and asked members will to make contribution to be prepared to do so\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has written to the National Assembly seeking amendment to the 2022 supplementary appropriation Act to allow the Federal Government source N500 billion for palliative to cushion the effect of subsidy removal. In a letter read on the floor of the House during Wednesdays plenary by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, the President said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adestherultimate.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}