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The Lagos State Government’s 2025 budget has come under scrutiny after a report revealed that N9 billion was allocated solely for purchasing backup utility vehicles for the state’s lawmakers, while critical sectors like education received little to no funding.
The expenditure represents a significant portion of the state’s spending, with N13.33 billion spent from January to September 2024 on the vehicles, accounting for 32.8% of the Assembly’s total budget allocation. The report revealed that despite the state’s budgetary allocations of N191 million and N8.57 billion respectively for the projects, no funds were disbursed to the educational institutions in the first three quarters of the year.
'Similarly, Lagos State University , according to the budget performance report, got N8,570,966,760.50 in the original budget and N1,070,966,760.50 in the revised budget for renovation/upgrading of university buildings which includes Senate, library, faculty of management science, etc. but received zero funding from the state government between Q1 and Q3.
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