N'Assembly Confirms Truce with Yar'Adua on Budget - This day

As exclusively reported by THISDAY yesterday, the Senate has confirmed that President Umaru Musa Yar�Adua will give his assent to the 2008 Appropriation Bill by weekend while a supplementary budget will be presented to the National Assembly later to address areas of differences between the two arms of government.
Also, as part of the truce reached at the last Tuesday�s night parley between the President and the leadership of the National Assembly, Yar�Adua successfully persuaded the House of Representatives to defer their invitation to Finance Minister, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman over the N103 billion capital expenditure allegedly made by the executive without appropriation. Full Story