Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara state Thursday presented over N545,014 billion as 2025 appropriation bills to the state assembly.
He said recurrent expenditure budget proposal stands at N151,680 billion, which is 28% of the total expenditure, noting that it will essentially cover personnel costs, including the N70,000 minimum wage increment, pensions, gratuities, and provision for new employees while a total of N393,334,575,000 billion stands for capital expenditure.
The governor further stated that out of the total estimate, N112,855,094,440.00, representing 20.71%, is earmarked for the administration sector.
“This sector covers areas such as religious affairs, information and culture, internal security and home affairs, assembly matters, civil service, cabinet affairs, and general services,” he said.
He added that the economic sector, which comprises agriculture, commerce, industries and tourism, infrastructure, housing and urban development, budget and planning, and finance, will receive the sum of N253,239,622,000 billion which represents 46.46% of the total budget.
On the social sector which comprises education, health, youth and sports development, women and social development, environment, and natural resources, Governor Dauda said the sum of N170,164,398,560 billion representing 31.22%, is set aside for the sector.
“Education and health, being the most critical components of the sector, receive the highest allocation of 14.62% and 11.77%, respectively.” he stated.
