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Gov Alia presents N550.1bn 2025 budget proposal to Benue Assembly
The Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, on Wednesday presented the 2025 budget estimate of N550.1 billion to the State House of Assembly for approval.
Alia, who christened the appropriation bill as “Budget of Human Capital Development, Food Security, and Digital Economy,” told the lawmakers that N175.4 billion was set aside as recurrent expenditure and N374.7 billion for capital expenditure in the budget.
The governor said the total estimate represented a 47.5 percent increment over the 2024 revised and approved figure of N373 billion.
Alia added that the proposed recurrent expenditure of N175.4 billion was 13.5 percent higher than the previous year.
He said: “The budgeted capital expenditure of N374.7 billion represents a 71.5 percent increment on the 2024 revised capital expenditure.
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“The budget breakdown indicated that the sum of N212.2 billion, representing 38.52 percent is for administration; N196.6 billion, representing 35.68 percent is for the economy; law and justice will take N26.6 billion, representing 4.84 percent while social welfare will gulp N115.5 billion, representing 20.96 percent.
“We have the vision. We have the will. And most importantly, we have the people ready to work alongside us to turn this vision into reality.
“Together, we will build a state where every citizen has the opportunity to succeed, where food is plentiful, and where the digital economy opens new frontiers of opportunity for all.”
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