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At least eight states in Nigeria have successfully signed their 2025 budgets ahead of the new fiscal year, The Eastern Updates reports.
The Eastern Updates gathered that on Sunday, the governors of Abia, Sokoto, Kaduna, Katsina, Anambra, Edo, Bauchi, and Enugu states have signed into law the 2025 appropriation bill.
Meanwhile, the federal government and 28 states, including Lagos and Delta, have barely three days to sign their respective 2025 budgets.
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State-by-state breakdown of the signed 2025 budgets so far showed that Enugu has the highest sub-national budget of N971 billion, followed by Kaduna with an N790 billion, then Abia state came behind as third with a N750.2 billion budget size.
Others are Katsina (N692.2 billion), Edo (N675 billion), Anambra (N606 billion), Sokoto (N526 billion), and Bauchi (N467 billion).
Recall that on December 18, 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presented the N49.7 trillion 2025 federal government’s budget to the National Assembly for passage.
Thereafter, the budget scaled through the first and second readings 24 hours after its presentation before the National Assembly.
In other news, the Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has signed into law a budget of ₦750,282, 200,000 for the 2025 fiscal year, as recently passed into law by the Abia State House of Assembly.
Assenting to the appropriation bill on Friday, Governor Otti commended the lawmakers for giving the bill an accelerated hearing and passage, saying that the budget would empower his administration to deliver more quality services.
He thanked the members of the Abia State House of Assembly for scrutinising the 2025 budget before passing it into law, noting that his administration has changed the story of Abia being one of the dirtiest states in Nigeria as of 2023.
