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The National Assembly has rescinded its decisions on the 2025 budget bill that was passed last week to correct some errors in line items under capital and recurrent.
The Eastern Updates reports that both the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the bill on Thursday February 13.
However, while the budget size remains at 54.9 trillion naira, the capital expenditure has been reduced by more than 500 billion naira and the recurrent expenditure was increased by same amount.
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According to NTA, the bill now puts recurrent expenditure at 13.588 trillion naira while the capital expenditure is 23.439 trillion naira.
The budget had triggered mixed reactions with some persons arguing that it would lead to more inflation.
The Benue State House of Assembly has passed a resolution directing Governor Hyacinth Alia to remove the Chief Judge, Justice Maurice Ikpambwese, from office.
The lawmakers made the resolution on Tuesday during a plenary session presided by the Speaker, Hyacinth Dajoh.
During the debate, 23 out of the 31 members voted in favour of the removal of Justice Ikpambwese based on the report of the House.
The report read by the Majority Leader, Saater Tiseer, levelled allegations of misconduct against the Chief Judge, including misappropriation of funds.
It was however gathered that the Chief Judge was not invited to respond to the allegations levelled against him by the house.
There had been reports of disagreement between the Chief Judge and the state government.
