News
Gov Matawalle presents 2021 budget of N145.4bn to Zamfara Assembly
The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, on Thursday presented the 2021 budget proposal of N145 billion to the state House of Assembly for approval.
In his address at the presentation, Matawalle said N64 billion has been set aside for recurrent expenditure and N81 billion for capital expenditure in the budget.
He noted that the budget was 14.2 percent higher than the revised budget of 2020.
The governor said: “The sum of N32 billion, representing 49 percent of the capital expenditure is budgeted to take care of the economic sector to provide empowerment through agriculture; public finance and fiscal management as well as private sector growth and development among others.”
READ ALSO: PDP candidate wins Zamfara by-election
He also explained that the state government was allocated N28.2 billion or 34.9 percent of the total budget while the social sector received N19.1billion.
The Speaker of the House, Alhaji Nasiru Magarya, promised to fast track deliberations on the budget.
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...