Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has signed the 2020 Appropriation Bill of N177.3 billion into law. Lalong had on November 26 presented a budget estimate of N172.5 billion to the Plateau State House of Assembly for consideration and passage. “Let me commend the Speaker, the leadership of the House and entire honourable members for giving the 2020 budget the desired expedited attention,” he said. He stressed that the government would spare no effort to meeting revenue targets especially the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) which is crucial to funding the 2020 budget. Wallangko said that the budget was made up of N98.7 billion recurrent expenditure and N78.5 billion capital expenditure.

Source: Nigerian Tribune December 23, 2019 16:18 UTC