Jigawa Assembly passes 2025 State, LG budget
By Ahmed Aminu Dutse
The Jigawa State House of Assembly has passed the state’s 2025 Appropriation Bill of N698.3 billion.
The Assembly also approved N184.4 billion as the 2025 budget for the 27 local government councils in the state.
The lawmakers passed the two bills at plenary on Monday.
The Chairman of the Committee on Appropriation, Hon. Hamza Ibrahim presented the report of the committe containing over 62 recommendations, which the lawmakers unanimously adopted.
The state budget is made up of N90,730,520,000 personnel cost; N70,171,960,00, recurrent; and N537,397,000,520 for capital projects.
On the local councils’ budget, the committee made seven recommendations providing the setting aside of 17% for pension, primary healthcare, and universal basic education.
The Speaker, Mr Haruna Aliyu, who presided over the sitting, expressed the hope that the budget will be implemented to provide people-oriented projects across the state.
The Syndicate recalls that Gov. Umar Namadi had on Dec. 9 presented a budget of N698.3 billion and N184.4bn to the assembly for consideration.
