Kano govt to spend N2.5b on mass wedding

Kano State Government has earmarked N2.5 billion in 2025 appropriation for a mass wedding programme across the 44 local governments of the state.
The budget intervention for incapacitated widows and widowers, divorces, suitors, and spinsters seeking marriage came under N91.32 billion allocations for the governance and service delivery sector.

Although the number of beneficiaries of the 2025 mass wedding programme has not been released, the present administration spent about N845 million on 1,800 couples under a similar package in 2024.

Giving a breakdown of the 2025 appropriation for the 2025 fiscal year, Commissioner for Planning and Budget, Musa Sulaiman Shanono, said N 1 billion is equally earmarked for the Ramadan feeding programme.

According to the commissioner, over N267 million will be allocated for printing the Islamic calendar and support for Da’awah programme in the year 2025.

Still, under the governance and service delivery sector, Shanono disclosed a sum of N589 million voted for security research, empowerment, and street begging special intervention.

Although the Commissioner was not explicit about whether the government is considering reopening toll gates, he said N100 million has been allocated to rehabilitate the existing toll gates.

Under the Security, Law and Justice, Shonono said the government is expending N19.5 billion on various programs including the provision of CCTV Camera at High Court complexes and Magistrate courts at the sum of N500 million, rehabilitation of office building for magistrate N875 million and the purchase of furniture and fittings at Shar’ia court at N210 million.

In the health sector, the Commissioner highlighted the provision for the construction of new intensive care units at Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital and Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital with N2.3 billion.

He said the control of non-communicable diseases at N500 million, implementation of a minimal service package investment plan will gulp N2.4 billion, and implementation of a basic health care provision fund will take N1 billion.