{"id":158646,"date":"2019-10-08T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=158646"},"modified":"2019-10-08T16:51:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:51:02","slug":"health-education-get-low-allocations-as-buhari-presents-2020-budget-before-national-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=158646","title":{"rendered":"Health, education get low allocations as Buhari presents 2020 budget before National Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/What-Buhari-told-German-Ethiopian-envoys.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday presented the year 2020 budget estimates to a joint session of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, who arrived the National Assembly chambers at about 2 p.m., presented the budget to lawmakers under atmosphere free of rancour unlike last year.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. President during the declaration said that N125 billion was allocated to the National Assembly while N110 billion was allocated to the Judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>For allocations to ministries, the president affirmed the following allocations to respective ministries.<\/p>\n<p>Works and Housing \u2013 N262 billion<\/p>\n<p>Transportation \u2013 N123 billion<\/p>\n<p>UBEC \u2013 N112 billion<\/p>\n<p>Defence \u2013 N100 billion<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture \u2013 N83 billion<\/p>\n<p>Water Resources \u2013 N82 billion<\/p>\n<p>Education \u2013 N48 billion<\/p>\n<p>Health \u2013 N46 billion<\/p>\n<p>North East Dec Commission \u2013 N38 billion<\/p>\n<p>SIPs \u2013 N30 billion<\/p>\n<p>FCT \u2013 N28 billion<\/p>\n<p>Niger Delta \u2013 N24 billion<\/p>\n<p>However, Senate President, Ahmed Lawan in his speech charged all government ministries, departments and agencies to defend their proposals before lawmakers before the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the lawmakers should ensure the budget got passed before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday presented the year 2020 budget estimates to a joint session of the National Assembly. Buhari, who arrived the National Assembly chambers at about 2 p.m., presented the budget to lawmakers under atmosphere free of rancour unlike last year. Mr. President during the declaration said that N125 billion was allocated to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2829,2828,1,3,4],"tags":[1249,41,2054,503,1412,62],"class_list":["post-158646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-education","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-buhari","tag-education","tag-national-assembly","tag-nigerian-politics","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}