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• Govt slashes primary health care centres’ fund from N44.4bn to N25.5bn; UBE, N111.7bn to N51.1bnThe Federal Government has reduced the N37bn budget for the renovation of the National Assembly complex to N27.7bn.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , had on Thursday presented the 2020 Appropriation Act Bill to the National Assembly, which both the Senate and the House passed for second reading same day. The UBE is a reform programme aimed at providing greater access to quality basic education throughout Nigeria.
“Similarly, provision for basic health care fund is reduced by over 42 per cent. With the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, reduction in budgetary share for education and healthcare does not reflect the prioritisation of the citizen’s real needs. “Nigeria is the poverty capital in the world despite being one of the most endowed countries. It is the misplaced of priorities that brought us to this sorry state we found ourselves.
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