Kwara State Approves ?584bn Budget for 2025, Boosting Key Sectors

Date: 2025-02-03

The Kwara State House of Assembly, located in North Central Nigeria, has approved the 2025 Appropriation Bill amounting to Five Hundred and Eighty-Four Billion, Six Hundred and Ninety-Three Million, Four Hundred and Eighty-Six Thousand, Six Hundred and Eighty-Four Naira, Seventy-Two Kobo.

This approval came after an upward revision of the initial sum of Five Hundred and Forty Billion, Three Hundred and Sixty-Eight Million, One Hundred and Nineteen Thousand, Seven Hundred and Sixty-Five Naira, which was presented by the state Governor, Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq last month.

The assembly increased the appropriation bill by Forty-Four Billion, Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Million, Three Hundred and Sixty-Six Thousand, Nine Hundred and Nineteen Naira, Seventy-Two Kobo. This additional funding will be allocated to key Ministries, including Education, Health, Agriculture, Water Resources, Housing, Youth Development, and Works and Transport, to enhance their operations and service delivery.

Capital Expenditure gulped Three Hundred and Seventy-Nine Billion, Three Hundred and Ninety-Six Million, Six Hundred and Ninety-Four Thousand, Five Hundred And Ninety-Seven Naira, Forty Kobo representing 64.9% while the remaining 35.1% is for the recurrent Expenditure of Two Hundred and Five Billion, Two Hundred and Ninety-Six Million, Seven Hundred and Ninety-Two Thousand, Eighty-Seven Naira, Thirty-two Kobo.

The Speaker of the House, Engineer Yakubu Danladi-Salihu in his remarks, explained that Kwara State has continued with the template of the Nigeria Governors' Forum out of the conviction that it is in line with global best practices in budgeting.

Engr. Danladi-Salihu noted that the National Charts of Accounts that was adopted and domesticated in the preparation of the 2024 Budget is also sustained adding that the 2025 budget of the State is in full compliance with the SABER template.

He also praised the Chairman of the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation, Fatima Arinola Lawal, and other lawmakers for what he noted was a job well done and charged them to work for the substantial implementation of the budget in line with the constitutional provision.

The Speaker appreciated the Clerk and management of the House particularly the Budget, Planning Research & Statistics Department, the Committee Clerks, and, the entire staff of the House for their usual commitment and hard work and called on all Kwarans for their continuous support for the state government.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Tuesday Assayomo     Face Masks     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Ajuloopin     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Saheed Popoola     Femi Oladiji     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Pacify Labs     Ahmad Belgore     Aremu Bose Deborah     ER-KANG     Tafidan Kaiama     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Mohammed Halidu     Adisa Logun     Reuben Paraje     Kanu Agabi     Matthew Okedare     Ekiti     Oro Grammar School     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Unicontinental Construction Company     Amuda Bembe     Abubakar Baba     FERMA     Bello Bature     Ayinde Oki     Oniwasi Agbaye     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Women Radio     Quarry Royal Valley     Flights To Ilorin     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Shagari     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Kolawole Akande     Salman Jawondo     Abdulrazaq Aiyelabegan     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Ajia-Bako     Sola Saraki University     Omu-aran     New Model Police Station     Kwasu     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Ogbondoroko     Yusuf Lanre Badmus     S.O. Opowoye     Popo-Igbonna     Sam Okaula     Joseph Offorjama     Ijagbo Health Centre     Bamidele Aluko     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Oloye     JSSCE     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Ita-Ore     Zainab Abass     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Michael Ologundea     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     EFCC     Metro Park     Salake     Akeem Olatunji     ER-KANG Mining     Agor Market     Odo-Owa    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Tunde Idiagbon Road     Village Alive Development Association     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Agboola Abdulraheem     Balikis Jawondo     Ijagbo Health Centre     Oba-Solagberu     Temitope Ogunbanke     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Olaosebikan     Yekini Adio     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Ahmed Dankaya     Ilorin East     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Azeez Bello     Age AbdulKareem     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Shagari     Amosa     School Of Nursing     Esuwoye     Nupe     Shonga Farm Project     Ayinde Oyepitan     Mahee Abdulkadir     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Nurudeen Muhammed     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Ope Saraki     Abubakar Suleiman     KWTV     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Kwasu     Mary Arinde     Isiaka Gold     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Jaigbade Alao     Baaziki Sulaiman     Ganiyu Abolarin     Abdulwahab Ololele     Bankole Omishore     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Ojuekun     TIIDELab     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Iyiola Oyedepo     Lanwa     MMWG     Binta Abubakar-Mora     Biliaminu Aliu     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Funmilayo Mohammed     Share     Oladipo Akanmu Tolani     AGF Abdulrazaq     Ramadan     Radio Kwara     Isiaq Khadeejah     Yusuf Mubarak     Toyin Abdullahi     Yetunde Balogun     Turaki     Saheed Alakoso     KWASIEC     Owo Isowo     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Usman Rifun     Kwara State Polytechnic     Kwabes     Olatunde Olukoya     Tosin Saraki     Aisha Ahman Pategi     Galadima