N1.3 billion will be spent on numerous trips, both foreign and local by President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in 2018. According to reports, the figure is part of the 2018 Appropriation Bill presented to the joint section of the National Assembly by President Buhari last week. It was gathered that the two Nigerian leaders will spend N968.4 million on their foreign trips during the year, while their local trips will take N334 million.
President Buhari’s budget on foreign trip alone is N751 million and N250 million on local trips. The VP will spend N217 million and N84 million on his foreign and local trips respectively. These figures do not include N182 million allocated for both local and foreign trips in the budget of the State House Headquarters. In the last budget of 2017, President Buhari spent N739 million on foreign trips, while Osinbajo used N218 million for the same purpose. Also in 2017, N238 million was spent by Buhari on local trips while his deputy’s local trips cost N88 million, spending N1. 28 billion on foreign and local trips in total last year.
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