 The Senate has approved the sum of 22.7 trillion Naira. It was spent by the Executive Am of Government without the initial approval of the National Assembly. The 22.7 trillion Naira is money borrowed by the federal government from the Central Bank of Nigeria, through the ways and means advance. The Senate also approved an additional sum of 180.4 billion Naira being balanced of the supplementary budget, an interest accrued to the ways and means advance. The Senate's decision followed the consideration of an introduction by its members. Mr. Weshkeleks, the Special Committee of the Excessive Deliberations recommends as follows, that the structural sum of 22 trillion, 719 million, 703, 774,306.9, only for ways and means advances be approved because the advances were made to ensure that the government does not shut down. Two, that the Senate further approves the sum of 180,463,162,187, being the money, I mean the interest accrued on the money. The Senate also sounds a note of warning to the Executive that the National Assembly will not condone any future increase in the ways and means without seeking the approval of the National Assembly. The National Assembly will not condone the ways and means accrued over a long period of time. Ways and means is not peculiar to our country. They become necessities but there are procedures and processes and better ways of incurring them. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.