 The National Assembly has approved a 4.87 billion Naira budget for the National Intelligence Agency to track, intercept and monitor calls and messages on mobile devices, including Terai and WhatsApp. The amount is part of the 895.8 billion Naira supplementary budget submitted by the President Mohamed Buhari last month and approved by the both chambers of the federal parliament last week after increasing it by about 87 billion Naira. According to the Chairman's Senate Committee on Appropriation, Saniterba Rao Gibran, the budget is meant to procure equipment for the military and to fight further spread of COVID-19. Now details of the supplementary budget obtained by our correspondent revealed that the NIA would spend 2.938 billion Naira on the Terai Interception Solution while the WhatsApp Interception Solution would gap 1.931 billion Naira. Apart from this, the NIA got additional 129 million Naira to enable its personnel in back on foreign trading. The Defense Intelligence Agency on its part got a capital vote of 16.8 billion to provide infrastructure, cyber intelligence center, laboratory, independent lawful intercept platform and tactical mobile geological platform. To hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.