by Opeoluwa Quadri
The National Assembly has made good its promise to make public her 2017 budget. The budget details published showed that NASS raised its budget by N10 billion, to N125bn. The breakdown shows that the Management, Senate and the House of Representatives are to receive N14,919,065,013, N31,398,765,886 and N49,052,743,983 respectively.
National Assembly Service Commission gets N2,415,712,873; Legislative aides gets: N9,602,095,928; Public Accounts Committee (Senate): N118,,970,215; Public Account Committee (Reps): N142,764,258; General services:N12,584,672,079; NASS legislative Institute:N4,373,813,596; service wide vote:N391,396,169.