State assemblies added over ₦1 trillion combined to state budgets
Lagos State Assembly added an extra ₦360b to the 2025 budget, more than four of the top states combined.
Yobe State Assembly is the only state legislative arm that passed a lower amount than the proposed figure.
Three of the top five states with the largest difference between presented and approved budgets are in the southern part of the country.
Twenty state assemblies in Nigeria increased their budgets by a combined ₦1.008 trillion, with Lagos and Kano accounting for 52.7% of the increase. This trend follows the national assembly's regular increase of the nation's annual budget after review.
The Kano State House of Assembly increased the state's 2025 budget by 31.1%, the largest of any state. Meanwhile, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara states increased their budgets by less than 0.5%.
Fourteen state governors presented budgets with the same amounts passed by their state assemblies and signed into law.
Only one state approved a lower budget than what was proposed. State legislators in Yobe reduced the proposed budget by ₦15 million from ₦320.811 billion to ₦320.796 billion.
In 2024, there was a sharp drop in unrealised humanitarian funds from the amount received in 2023.
The rate at which the amount of unrealised humanitarian aid increased from 2022 to 2023 is approximately the same rate at which the unrealised amount dropped in 2024.
The lowest amount of unrealised funding was recorded in 2016.
The UN secured $632 million of the $1.08 billion needed for humanitarian assistance in Nigeria in 2020.
The US dusbursed $512 million to Nigeria’s health sector during the fiscal year.
The US allocated over $232 million to HIV/AIDS programs in Nigeria.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that this freeze could reverse decades of progress in HIV prevention and treatment, with the potential to worsen global health outcomes.
PEPFAR, a US initiative, provides HIV treatment for over 20 million people worldwide.
Twenty state assemblies in Nigeria increased their budgets by a combined ₦1.008 trillion, with Lagos and Kano accounting for 52.7% of the increase. This trend follows the national assembly's regular increase of the nation's annual budget after review.
The Kano State House of Assembly increased the state's 2025 budget by 31.1%, the largest of any state. Meanwhile, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Taraba and Zamfara states increased their budgets by less than 0.5%.
Fourteen state governors presented budgets with the same amounts passed by their state assemblies and signed into law.
Only one state approved a lower budget than what was proposed. State legislators in Yobe reduced the proposed budget by ₦15 million from ₦320.811 billion to ₦320.796 billion.