President Mohammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has finally assented to the 2016 budget, Channels TV reports.

The ceremony of signing the main national document was attended by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, and the chairmen of the National Assembly appropriation committees.

This comes after the National Assembly submitted a clean copy of the budget to President Buhari.

President had suspended assent after some changes were noticed in the document.

The government announced yesterday it had mapped out 34 strategic priority programmes and projects it intended to achieve with the 2016 budget.

It also plans to increase local production of maize, soya beans, poultry and livestock and to stop import.