On Jan 3, @MBuhari signed the 2023 Appropriation Bill of N21.83tn into law, Nigeria’s largest budget in history & the last of his administration. The budget is based on a N10.49tn revenue, and N11.34tn deficit.
From the total revenue of N10.49tn, independent revenue has the highest share of N2.62tn, Non-oil Revenue has N2.43tn, while N2.23tn will be gotten from oil revenue. Retained Revenue from GOEs is N2.42tn, and other revenue will generate N794.13bn. 2/5
Of the N21.83tn budget, recurrent expenditure has the highest allocation of N8.33tn, gulping nearly 40% of the budget. This includes a personnel cost of N5.02tn, overhead cost of N1.11tn, statutory deductions of N967.49bn & pension, gratuity & retirees benefit at N854.81tn…3/5
...N6.31tn has been earmarked for debt service, representing approximately 29%, while capital expenditure has 27% of the budget at N6.45tn. 4/5
The 2023 budget is based on oil production of 1.69 million barrels per day at $75 per barrel. The projected GDP growth will be at 3.75%, with an exchange rate of N435.57/$ and an inflation rate of 17.16%. 5/5.
A detailed analysis of the budget is ongoing and will be out soon.
Kindly note that the pension, gratuity and retirees benefit which forms part of the recurrent expenditure is N854.81bn.
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According to the 2023 Fiscal Accounts Report of the Accountant General of the Federation, Nigeria's Federal Government made a revenue of N5.99tn, spent N19.50tn, and recorded a deficit of N13.50tn—225% of the total revenue.
What does this mean? The government spent more than three times what it earned in revenue
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Where did the revenue come from?
N3.80 trillion came from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), FG share of independent revenue raked in N1.98tn, the FG share of the Federation Account contributed N2.39tn, exchange rate differences was N715.75bn, while VAT added N441.87bn.
How was the money spent?
Debt servicing accounted for 43.9% of the budget at N8.56tn—the largest single expense. Non-debt spending took up 27.8% at N5.42tn, while capital expenditure was 23% at N4.49tn.
🗣️🗣️ It is worrisome that the Federal Government is drafting a 2024 Supplementary Budget to be implemented alongside the 2023 Approved Budget, 2023 Supplementary Budget, and 2024 Approved Budget.
FOUR budgets at once—an unprecedented anomaly.
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Recall that the 2023 Approved Budget of N21.83 trillion, signed into law by President @MBuhari in January 2023, was designed to run for 12 calendar months from January to December, as is the practice globally.
In addition, while the 2024 Appropriation Bill was being drafted, the 2023 Supplementary Budget of N2.17 trillion was passed by the National Assembly and assented to by President @officialABAT barely two months before the end of the 2023 fiscal year.
Hello Nigerians, our extensive analysis of the 2024 FG Budget is finally out!
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The Budget is anchored on N28.78tn in total expenditure & N19.60tn in revenue, a Debt service of N8.27tn, Recurrent (Non-Debt) expenditure of N8.77tn, & Capital expenditure of N10tn.
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The fiscal deficit is currently N9.18tn. The projected deficit represents about 50% of the federal government’s expected revenue and 3.88% of the projected GDP.
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A look at the sector allocations shows the highest share of the total budget going to Security and Defense (13.38%), followed by Education (8.21%), Infrastructure (6.63%)…
Our findings on Senator Ningi’s allegations of N3.7 trillion budget padding for 2024 budget shows that a breakdown of N25.4tn was provided for the budgets of the Ministries, Departments and Agencies…
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…while the comprehensive budget breakdown of GOEs, @nassnigeria, National Judicial Council, Public Complaints Commission, INEC, and TETFUND totaling N3.32tn was excluded from the budget that was passed and published.
This does not mean the country operates two separate budgets.
There’s only one final 2024 budget known to us.
However, the summary budget of the aforementioned agencies was passed by the National Assembly and included in the published approved budget.
🗣️ @BudgITng's State Fiscal Transparency League project reveals findings on Nigeria's procurement websites👇
- 7 states have functional e-procurement portals with accessible data
- 16 states have portals, but data isn't up to date.
- 13 states lack both portals & data.
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BudgIT, under its State Fiscal Transparency League project, has extensively assessed the procurement websites of Nigeria’s 36 states to evaluate the level of transparency and accessibility of procurement-related information to the public. #SFTLProject #AskQuestions
The assessments, categorized into three categories—Green, Yellow, & Red—are as follows: green indicates that a state’s e-procurement portal is operating and data is available;
Having reviewed the proposed 2024 Appropriation Bill breakdown, it’s unfortunate that the @officialABAT administration has continued with some harmful budget practices from previous regimes that have fostered corruption, underdevelopment, unemployment, and multidimensional poverty.
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In August 2023, we itemized ten plagues that the Tinubu administration should avoid in the 2024 budget and budget process to ensure value for money, curb expenditure inefficiency and waste, enforce accountability, and put Nigeria on the pathway of prosperity, economic growth, and development.
Unfortunately, having reviewed the proposed 2024 Appropriation Bill breakdown, we observed that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has continued with some deleterious budget practices from previous regimes that have fostered corruption, underdevelopment, unemployment, and multidimensional poverty.