{"id":217566,"date":"2025-12-21T15:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-presents-nigerias-2026-budget-to-national-assembly-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:02:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:02:51","slug":"nigeria-tinubu-presents-nigerias-2026-budget-to-national-assembly-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-presents-nigerias-2026-budget-to-national-assembly-live-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Tinubu Presents Nigeria&#8217;s 2026 Budget to National Assembly (Live Updates)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">President Tinubu notified the lawmakers of his intention to present the budget through a letter transmitted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">President Bola Tinubu will present the \u20a654 trillion 2026 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The two chambers of the National Assembly have already approved the 2026-2028 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and the Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP), which form the foundation of the proposed budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190506.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Tinubu notified the lawmakers of his intention to present the budget through a letter transmitted on Wednesday. President Bola Tinubu will present the \u20a654 trillion 2026 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly today. The two chambers of the National Assembly have already approved the 2026-2028 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7269,6080,9191,6687,257,4687,393,5761,6705,254,8308,12445],"class_list":["post-217566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assembly","tag-budget","tag-live","tag-national","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-presents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-updates"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}