Finance
minister and co-ordinating minister for the economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will
today present the 2015 budget estimates separately to the two chambers of the
National Assembly.
The
total budget figure to be presented by the minister is N4.357.96 trillion. Out
of this amount, government proposed N627billion for capital expenditure and
N2.622 trillion for recurrent expenditure.
The
Federal Government had returned the
revised 2015-2017 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) to the Senate to
ratify the adjustments carried out on the document, in tandem with current realities in the oil market.
This
is the second time President Goodluck Jonathan has
