Nasarawa State has a poor vaccination record. According to the National Housing Demographic Survey (NDHS) of 2018, the state vaccination record is below 40 percent across all ages for infants and children.
Al Utsaha, who traveled from Makurdi to Abuja on Saturday, January 28, purchased fuel at three different prices. He bought petrol at N305 per litre at a filling station in Northbank, Makurdi. On getting to Ado-Mararaba in Nasarawa State, he purchased a litre at N320. He then went on to buy it at N194 at the NNPC filling station along Zuba-Giri road on Sunday, January 29.
In the South-East region, while Anambra, Ebonyi, and Imo states spent fair shares of their budgets on capital items, Enugu and Abia states spent virtually nothing on capital projects as all expenses went to recurrent issues.
The current cash shortage will likely lead to a drop in Nigeria’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the first quarter of 2023, according to analysts.
An analysis of the 2022 budget performances of North-East states shows that the agricultural sector fared poorly across the region.
An analysis of three selected sectors – education, health, and agriculture – shows that Gombe performed better than other states in the North-East region in the 2022 budget performance.
In Bauchi State, 49 per cent of its expenditure was budgeted for capital expenditure, and 39 per cent was spent. Bruno State budgeted 63 per cent and spent 48 per cent, and Taraba State budgeted 48 per cent
Other states’ performance shows that Katsina State had a recurrent capital expenditure composition of 50% to 50%. In Kebbi State, it is 59% to 41%, 71% to 29% in Sokoto State, and 86% to 14% in Zamfara State.
Thus, while four states budgeted over 50 per cent of their expenditure on capital items in the southwest region, only one state implemented over 50 per cent of its spending on capital expenditure.
Kogi State, by the end of the second quarter of 2022, had the best budget implementation performance amongst the states in the North-Central region. The state implemented 69.18 per cent of its first two-quarters pro rata budget. It budgeted N72.95 billion and spent N50.46 billion.
Cross River State spent the sum of N39.42 billion by the end of the second quarter as a total expenditure. Within this period, 27 per cent of the amount spent was on capital expenditure and 73 per cent on recurrent expenditure
Imo State recorded a 52.8 per cent performance, having spent N100,7 billion of its proposed 190.73 billion. The other state’s expenditure performance is 40.77 per cent for Enugu State, 31.93 per cent for Abia State, and 31.75 per cent for Anambra State.
In Osun and Ekiti states, 45 per cent of their agricultural expenditure was spent on capital expenditure. In Ondo State, 19 per cent of its agricultural expenditure was spent on capital expenditure, and 11 per cent was spent in Lagos State on capital expenditure.
The total domestic debt profile of subnational governments stood at N5.36 trillion by the end of the third quarter of 2022. Though the Debt Management Office (DMO) didn’t give a breakdown of the state government’s foreign debt, state government debt contributed 16.74 per cent of the total debt profile as of June 2022.
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N6.46 trillion of the approved N21.83 trillion 2023 budget is split amongst 10 ministries. This means that these ministries got 29.6 per cent of the total budget.
