Chairman
Hon. Ayoade Ademola Adeseun

Vice Chairman
Hon. Mohammed Ashiru Isa

About the committee
(1) There shall be a Committee to known as Committee on Appropriations, consisting of not more than forty (40)members appointed at the commencement of the life of the House.

(2) Committee jurisdiction shall cover:

• Appropriation of funds for execution of government programmes and projects
• Within thirty days after the transmittal of the budget to the National Assembly each year, hold hearings on the Budget as a whole with particular reference to:
• The basic recommendations and budgetary policies of the President in the presentation of the budget; and
• The fiscal, financial and economic assumptions used as basis in arriving at total estimated expenditures and receipts.

(3) In holding hearings pursuant to this section:

• The Committee shall receive testimony from the Minister of Finance, the Governor of Central Bank, the Chairman of the National Economic Intelligence Agency and such other persons as the Committee may consider useful to its work.
• Hearings pursuant to this sub-section or any part thereof, shall be held in open session and with a quorum present determined by roll call: provided that if the testimony to be taken at that hearing on that day be related to a matter of national security, the Committee may by the same procedure close the hearing to the public on that day and on other subsequent days of hearing. A transcript of all such hearings shall be printed and a copy thereof furnished to each member of the Committee.
• Hearings pursuant hereto, may be held before joint meeting of the House Committee and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate in accordance with such procedures as the two Committees may jointly determine.

(4) In addition, the Committee on Appropriations shall study on a continuing basis those provisions of law which (on the first day of the first fiscal year for which the National Assembly budgetary process is effective) provide spending authority or permanent budget authority and shall report to the House from time to time its recommendations for terminating or modifying such provisions.

(5) Oversight of the Budget Office of the Federation.

(6) Harmonization of the Revenue Bill as prescribed by Section 59 of the Constitution, and co-ordinate, monitor and supervise the implementation of all Appropriation Acts after passage by the National Assembly.

(7) Relating Annual Budget to Rolling Plans and Medium term expenditure Framework in order to inculcate budget culture to ensure continuity with regards to Capital Estimates.

(8) To provide the House timely and non- partisan analysis for economic, budget, policy and legislative decisions.

(9) To serve as repository for information and various position papers on the venture from the other Standing and Ad-hoc Committees within the House as well as other legislators.

(10) Annual Budget Estimates.

Members of the Committee