Nigeria: Budget - Jonathan, National Assembly in Race to Avert Veto

21 February 2013

Abuja — With the clock ticking away towards the 30-day deadline President Goodluck Jonathan has to assent to the 2013 Appropriation Bill, the executive and the legislature yesterday engaged in another round of talks to resolve their differences that have stalled the signing of the bill into law.

The president and the leadership of the two chambers of the National Assembly met again at the presidential villa, the second of such a meeting in the last 24 hours.

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