Senate Passes 2014 Budget – See The Breakdown

The Senate yesterday Wednesday April 9th passed the 2014 budget totalling N4.695 trillion, an amount which is N52.2billion higher than the N4.642trillion which was submitted by President Goodluck Jonathan to the National Assembly on December 19, 2013, through the Co-ordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Highlights of the 2014 budget as approved by the senate are:-

Statutory Transfers (N408,687,801,891)
Debts Service (N712,000,000,000)
Recurrent Expenditure (N2,454,887,566,702)
Capital Expenditure (N1,119,614,631,407)
While the Aggregate Expenditure is N4,695,190,000,000.