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Subject to approval of the National Assembly, the federal government would be spending N8.074 trillion on five priority sectors for the government. The sectors are defence & security, education, health, infrastructure and social development & poverty reduction programmes. President Muhammadu Buhari recently presented the N20.5 trillion national budget to the lawmakers.

Defence & security sector has the highest vote of N2.74 trillion (13 per cent of the total budget). That amount includes recurrent and capital expenditure vote for the military, police, intelligence and paramilitary. Nigeria is facing much of insecurity challenges that has gravely disrupted production and pushed up prices of farm produce across the country.

From the N2.05 trillion (10 per cent of the budget) for education sector, paltry N470 billion is earmarked for tertiary education revitalisation and salary enhancement, indicating that government maybe heading for another showdown with university lecturers. N1.23 trillion is the amount provisioned for Federal Ministry of Education and its agencies (recurrent & capital expenditure) with the other amount voted for UBEC and TETFUND.

Health Sector N1.58 trillion or eight per cent of the proposed budget, while the government plans to spend N756 billion (four per cent) on social development and poverty reduction programmes of the present istration.

Curiously, only five per cent or less than N1 trillion of the entire budget is voted for building of infrastructure. In simple , the federal government is planning to spend a little fragment of the budget (N998.93 billion) through ministries of Works & Housing, Power, Transport, Water Resources, Aviation for provision of infrastructure that is largely in deficit across Nigeria.

https://leadership.ng/2023-budget-defence-education-health-gulp-n8-1trn-as-fg-allocates-5-to-infrastructure/

I bet my ball that more than 20 percent of this money will never get to their destination

okay ooo

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Ultimately all this money will flow down into pockets of individuals; legitimately & illegitimately.
Make I go equip & position myself to chop my own legitimate share.

Nlfpmod

Electricity no dey tak any

Or we don finally agree say we are allergic to 247 electricity..

Foolish Budget without Sense.

Even if they budget 10 trillion dollars for education in Nigeria, it will end up in the pockets of a few bastards. The same applies to defence.

State-sponsored education is a sham.

Nigerian universities no longer carry out any meaningful research.

Students are obsessed with making quick money instead of knowledge.

ok

Peter Obi is coming to redesign the budget

5% to infrastructure, it means our roads will remain death trap, Ekiti /Ondo/ Edo/ Delta especially

What of science and tech

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Sad

How about National Assembly?

Most of this money will be squandered.

Buhari is failing forward

APC is a scam
I just can’t wrap my head around why Some people don’t want to have sense and vote them again

How much is North contributing and how much money going to north as waste? The crises that deliberately caused by selfish individual and use religion as a tool.

RenegadeX:
Peter Obi is coming to redesign the budget

maybe in anambra

How are they going to fund the budget that is the main question, they will just create more debt for the country and embezzle the loan.

K

What kind of miscalculated budget is this? They didn’t even include sport, employment, electricity and so on And we already know where the final destination of the funds would be which is their pocket as usual without having to get probed by it cos this is Nigeria�

The country is gone

Tongue In Cheek budget.
Will it be given to them or just a budget stunt used to calm nerves?
When there was less debt, the govt couldn't do this as there was no money, I wonder how it will happen now.

Social development and poverty reduction programmes aka embezzlement

After getting the fund what they citizens gets in return is Sorrows, Tears, Insecurity, Hardships, etc