- * As Assembly Speaker Berates Gov Over Poor Work Relationship Between The State Executive And Legislature
By Princess Simon (Bureau Chief North Central, in Minna)
Governor Mohammed Umar Bago of Niger state has presented, N1,558,887,565,358.00 trillion year 2025 appropriation to the Niger State House of Assembly which is 48.32% higher than that of the 2024.
This is coming as the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Abdulmalik Sarkin-daji has berated Governor Bago for not entrenching cordial working relationship with the state's legislative arm of government.
The estimate, according to Bago comprises; N196, 335, 361, 443.00 billion or 13% of the budget size as recurrent expenditure and N1, 362,552,203, 915.00 trillion representing 87% of the total budget size as capital expenditure.
Bago said the bulk of the revenues within the 2025 fiscal year are to be derived from the following sources: (a) Statutory Allocation - N53,400,000,000.00 (b) Value Added Tax - N85,300,555,454.00 c) Other FAAC Receipts - N236,900,000,000.00 (d) IGR - N63,360,000,000.00 (e) Other IGR-N186,368,241,948.00 (f) Capital Receipt - N933,558,767,956.00, totalling -N1,558,887,565,358.00
The highest allocation of N90 billion is for the education sector, followed by health while nothing was mentioned about the channels of communication or Information dissemination of the administration's policies and programmes.
"We are repositioning the educational landscape to be accessible to the people. To this end, we established the Abdulkadir Kure University (AKUM) in Minna. We supported the students with Scholarships and bursaries totalling N450,000,000.00, awarded to 8,418 beneficiaries".
"The state government also secured a 1 million US dollar scholarship for the study of medicine abroad by the children of the less privileged; and we started a process which will see us renovate and construct about 600 secondary schools in the state".
Responding, the Speaker Niger State House of Assembly, Hon. Abdulmalik Sarkin-Daji commended the Governor Bago for the developmental initiatives.
Hon. Abdulmalik Sarkin-Daji however expressed regrets that the Governor has maintained no cordial working relationship with the legislature. NNL.
