The Federal Ministry of Education is set to ‘defend’ and produce its budget, currently before the National Assembly, with a whopping sum of N285 million.
Specifically, while the ministry will defend the 2025 budget with N175 million under the “ERGP30204384 Budget Preparation, Defence and Administration Ongoing,” the Ministry headquarters will also produce the 2026 budget with N110 million under the “22021014 Annual Budget Expenses and Administration.”
These figures were obtained from the 2025 appropriation bill currently before the National Assembly.
President Bola Tinubu had last week presented a budget of N49.7 trillion for the 2025 fiscal year to a joint session of the legislative body.
Findings by The Guardian showed that in the 2024 Appropriation Act, the National Assembly approved “ERGP30204384 Budget Preparation, Defence and Administration” to the tune of N175 million and N112,336,266 for budget preparation.
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With the 2024 Appropriation Act having 12 pages for education, this development implies that it costs at least N9.363 million to produce one page of the education budget.
The 2025 proposal is part of the N527,206,158 miscellaneous budget of the Ministry.
A breakdown of the miscellaneous proposal shows that while the Ministry will spend N44,371,031 on refreshments and meals, ‘monitoring activities and follow-up’ would cost N70,261,031, while the inspectorate would consume N120,337,797.
Other allocations include honorarium and sitting allowance (N26,626,486), medical expenses (N15,166,986), postages and courier services (N5,055,662), among others.
