The Federal Government has reduced the N37bn budget for the renovation of the National Assembly complex to N27.7bn. The Federal Government, in the 2020 revised budget proposal cut N9.3bn from the budget for the renovation of the National Assembly complex.
The President Muhammadu Buhari had on Thursday presented the 2020 Appropriation Act (amendment) Bill to the National Assembly, which both the Senate and the House passed for the second reading same day.
In the proposed revised budget, while the National Assembly complex renovation budget was reduced to N27.7bn (a reduction of 25.1 per cent), the Basic Health Care Provision Fund, which is meant to cater for all the primary healthcare centres across the 774 local government areas in the country, was significantly reduced by N44.4bn to N25.5bn, a decrease of more than 42.5 per cent
The Universal Basic Education fund was also reduced significantly from N111.7bn to N51.1bn, by more than 54.2 per cent, according to documents obtained by Dataphyte, an open data organisation.
The UBE is a reform programme aimed at providing greater access to quality basic education throughout Nigeria. It seeks to ensure uninterrupted access to nine-year formal education by providing free, and compulsory basic education for every child of school-going age.