The senate on Thursday, approved N500 billion request by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for palliatives to cushion the effects of the petrol subsidy removal on Nigerians.
The approval came shortly after the house of representatives agreed to the request.
The president had asked the national assembly for the provision and the upper legislative chamber granted the request after amending the 2022 supplementary appropriation act, saying the N500 billion will be taken from the N819 billion supplementary appropriation act.
The senate, while considering clauses of the bill in the “committee of the whole”, approved N185 billion for the federal ministry of works “to alleviate the impact of the flooding experienced in 2022 on road infrastructure across the six geo-political zones”.
The red chamber also approved N35 billion for the National Judicial Council (NJC), and N19.2 billion for the federal ministry of agriculture to “ameliorate the massive destruction to farmlands across the country during the severe flooding” in 2022.
The senate approved N10 billion for the federal capital territory administration (FCTA) for “critical projects”.