The Senate getting set to commence plenary by 1pm Saturday to consider and pass the 2024 budget.
The Senate had on Wednesday 21st December 2023 adjourned plenary till Friday 29th December to consider and pass the 2024 budget.
However, in a statement by the Clerk to the Senate, Chinedu Akubueze a few days later, the date was shifted till today Saturday 30th December 2023.
Akabueze in a new statement made available to newsmen this morning, said the plenary will now hold as from 1pm prompt.
The leadership of the National Assembly had expressed its readiness to pass the 2024 budget before the end of 2023 in order to maintain the January – December budget cycle policy of the Federal Government.