‎ Kano proposes 210bn budget for 2017

Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has presented an

estimated budget of N209, 857,330,488 for the year 2017 to the State

House of Assembly for passage. The budget was lower than that of year

2016 by N65bn.

 Last year, the state budgeted a total of N274,824,600,378.00 with

recurrent and capital expenditures of N157,410,532,069 and

N191,940,931,633 respectively.

 The capital and recurrent expenditures of the budget tagged ‘Budget

for Sustainable Self-Reliance’ stood at N130, 486,682,677.00 and N79,

370,647,811.00 respectively.

 The Ministry of works and Housing got the lion share of N43.72bn,

education got N17.5bn, water resources got N13.5bn, health got N10.74bn and Agriculture got N6.6bn.