Nigeria First (Abuja)
14 April 2008
Abuja — The 2008 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly was formally signed into law on Monday April 14 at the Presidential Villa by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua.
President Yar'dua's assent to the bill was witnessed by Vice President Goodluck Jonathan, the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Usman Bayero Nafada, amongst others.
Speaking at the occasion, the President said that he expects all agencies of the Federal Government to implement the 2008 budget with "the highest sense of responsibility and with total deference to due process".
In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Communications, Mr Olusegun Adeniyi, President Yar'Adua pledged that every effort to ensure that actual results, commensurate with the resources provided, were achieved with the 2008 budget, the main thrust of which, he said, is to deliver on the Administration's promise of poverty alleviation and pursue its seven-point agenda.
Meanwhile, the President will leave for Wiesbaden, Germany later today to see his private physicians for a medical review of an indisposition believed to be due to an allergic reaction.
He is expected back in the country before the weekend.
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