A funny scene ensued when a picture of ministers sleeping at the presentation surfaced on social media.
According to a compilation by the Nigerian Bulletin, some state governors have also presented their budgets for 2017, they are as follows:
1. Kaduna state
Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai presented his budget for October 2016 to the tune of N215.9 billion for the 2017 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly.
The budget was a total of N130.3 billion, representing 60 per cent of the budget was for capital expenditure, while N85.5 billion, representing 40 per cent of the estimate, was for recurrent expenditure.
2. Lagos state
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos state presented his budget in November 2016 to the tune of N813 billion to the House of Assembly.
Ambode called it “The Golden Jubilee Budget” because it coincides with Lagos state’s 50th Anniversary and said the budget will focus on physical infrastructure, and that health, education, youth and social development will also be give attention.
3. Nassarawa state
Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa state presented the budget for his state on Thursday, December 15, an appropriation bill to the tune of N67.013 billion for 2017 to the House of Assembly.
It was named the “Budget of Reformation’’ and he said it was in compliance with International Public Sector Accounting Standard (IPSAS).
According to Mr. Al-Makura, N37.012 billion, representing 55.2 per cent of the budget is for recurrent expenditure while N30 billion, representing 44.7 per cent is earmarked as capital expenditure for 2017 fiscal year.
4. Ekiti state
Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti state on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 presented the budget to the tune of N93.4bn Budget for 2017.
He tagged it “Budget of Higher Height” and announced that he would go to the mountain to pray on December 14 and return on December 21 with predictions for Nigeria.
Dressed in military camouflage while presenting the budget to the lawmakers, said that the recurrent expenditure for the 2017 appropriation bill was N55.02bn which is 59 per cent of the budget, while capital expenditure was N38.42 bn or 41 per cent of the estimates.
5. Delta state
Dr Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state, on November 10 presented the budget to the tune of N271 billion for 2017 to the state House of Assembly.
Okowa explained that N152 billion was for recurrent expenditure while N119 billion was for capital expenditure.
6. Abia state
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state presented the budget for his state in September. He called it the “Budget of Prudence and Self-Reliance.”
While presenting the budget, he said: “We will work towards it; we may not realize it 100% but we will certainly grade ourselves and say whether we made it 80% or 90%.”
7. Kano state
Abdullahi Ganduje the governor of Kano state, presented the budget for the state in November to the tune of N210 billion (specifically, N209,875,330,488) for 2017 to the state House of Assembly.
Ganduje tagged it “Budget of Sustainable Self Reliance” and said the budget would be funded by an expected internally generated revenue of N143.7 billion and N99.990 billion expected federal allocations.
8. Anambra state
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state on Tuesday, December 6, 2016 presented a budget proposal to the tunr of N115.5 billion to the state House of Assembly.
He explained that a total of N58.9 billion will be spent on capital projects, while N56.6 billion will go to recurrent expenditure.
9. Cross River state
Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River state presented the budget of his state on Monday, October 31, 2016 to the tune of N301 billion to the House of Assembly.
Mr Ayade said the budget was intended to project economic activities in the state, and would focus largely on the construction of the 260 kilometres super highway and the deep sea port.
10. Ogun state
Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state governor presented the budget for his state on Tuesday, November 22, 2016, to the tune of N221.129 billion for the 2017 fiscal year.
He titled the budget: “Budget of Repositioning” and while presenting the budget, he explained that the recurrent expenditure will cost N102.82 billion or 46.50 per cent of the budget, while capital expenditure will take N118.306 billion or 53.50 per cent.
11. Zamfara state
Governor Abdul-Aziz Yari of Zamfara state presented a budget to the tune of N107bn for 2017 to the state House of Assembly.
The governor proposed the sum of over N70 billion naira, and the sum of over N32 billion naira as capital and recurrent expenditures respectively
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