Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State has presented the sum of 156.59 appropriation bill on Wednesday to the State House of Assembly for the 2021 fiscal year.
The Governor said the budget is titled as Budget of Sustained Economic Growth and Social Transformation.
He said that the budget is higher than the 2020 Original and Revised Budgets by 2.4 percent and 29 percent respectively.
He added that education sector accounts for 36.4 percent of the total budget, while the Health Sector allocations amount to about 13.5 percent.
Governor Badaru explained that the total provisions for recurrent and capital expenditure across these two sectors amount to about 78.25 billion naira, equivalent to almost 50 percent of the total budget.
