 As plans for next year's budget begins to gather pace, the National Economic Council NEC has endorsed the 2022-2024 medium-term expenditure framework and fiscal strategy paper, which was presented to it at an emergency meeting of the Council today. Besides the paper presentation, the NEC also updated its focus on the reports of the state judicial panels set up across the country after last year's end-size protest. Vice President Yemi Ushimbajo urged states where the panels are still sitting to also send interim reports so as to measure progress. According to the vice president, in a statement by his media aide, Laoloa Konde, the reports are now being received ahead of a Council meeting where presentations would be made on them, for states where the panels have concluded their work and those that are still sitting. The Council comprises the 36 state governors, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, as well as other senior federal government officials.