.NigeriaGov Owe Education, Health Ministries N101.98bn In Unmet Budget Promises —CivicMediaLab Report | Sahara Reporters Worse still, the ministries responsible for the wellbeing and learning of Nigerians were only able to spend... READ MORE:
The Nigerian Government failed to meet capital funding promises worth 101.98bn made to the health and education sectors between 2016 and 2018, Civic Media Lab has discovered.
The institutions under this ministry would have prepared plans to execute N195.95bn worth of projects on new classrooms, laboratories, purchase of equipment, furniture, refurbish administrative buildings, hostels, etc but were forced to shed N96.10bn of their intentions, due to shortage of funds and late release of whatever was available.Out of the total sum, N144.29bn was released but the sector was only able to spend N129.
It was only able to spend N20.82bn of the released funds though, meaning N1.83bn was returned to the CBN as unutilized monies. Health agencies across the country had a compound sum of N840.44m they were unable to access this year.Education was still not a priority of the government, the deficit between appropriated funds and the amount released widened.
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