2025 Budget: Debt Servicing To Gulp N15.8trn As Tinubu Presents Appropriation Bill

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  • Defence And Security Tops Sectoral Allocation With N4.91trn of total N47.9trn

By Kolawole Ojebisi

A sum of N15.81 trillion has been allocated for debt servicing in the 2025 appropriation Bill presented to the joint sitting of the National Assembly by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The Tinubu administration’s readiness to bring insecurity to its knees particularly in the North which is the hotbed of terrorism and allied insurgency is reflected in budget allocation as defence and security tops the sectoral allocations in the N47.9 trillion budget presented by the President on Wednesday

The President disclosed this while giving a highlight of the Budget proposal before the National Assembly.

He stated that Defence/Security was allocated N4.91 trillion; Infrastructure was allocated N4.06 trillion; Health N2.4 trillion health while Education gets N3.5 trillion.

According to the President, the budget proposal has a N34.8trn revenue projection adding that out of the proposed N47.90 trillion, N15.81 trillion is for debt service with a N13.0 trillion deficit.

He further noted that, Inflation was projected to go down from 34.3% to 15% while Exchange Rate was brought down from 1700/$ to N1400/$.

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