LAGOS ASSEMBLY PASSES N1.7 TRILLION 2020 BUDGET

The Lagos State House of Assembly has passed into law the N1.68trn 2020 budget presented by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The total budget stood at N1,168,561,893,990, with a breakdown of N457,528,918,805 as recurrent expenditure and N711,032,979,185 as capital expenditure. Works and Infrastructure got the highest allocation of N128bn, education, N47bn, environment, N38bn and health, N33bn. The Co-chairman of the Joint Committee on Appropriation and Finance, Gbolahan Yishawu, while presenting the report of the committee, noted that the cumulative budget performance of the 2019 budget stood at 71 per cent, while the…

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