At excatly 4:40pm on Monday, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo signed the 2017 budget into law. The budget of ₦7,441,175,486,758 was passed by the senate and house of reps on the 11th of May, 2017.

Senate President Bukola Saraki; Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives; Udoma Udoma, minister of budget and national planning; Lai Mohammed, minister of information; Abba Kyari, chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari and Kemi Adeosun, minister of finance, witnessed the signing of the appropriation bill.