Reps ignore outrage, okay Buhari’s N23.7tr extra-budgetary spending

Despite outrage at Wednesday’s Senate approval of President Muhammadu Buhari’s request to restructure the N23.7 trillion loan from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) extended to the Federal Government under its Ways and Means (W&M) provision, the House of Representatives, yesterday, assented to the president’s controversial CBN overdrafts.

Sodiq Omolaoye (Abuja) and Rotimi Agboluaje (Ibadan)