2025: Nwifuru present N396bn budget, prioritises education, health
By Amarachi Ehia, Abakaliki
Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi state Thursday presented 2025 estimated budget of N396,589, 00,620bn to the state House of Assembly.
In the budget, the governor prioritised the Education and health sectors. While the education sector got N70,143, 386, 000.00bn as the highest, the health sector received N39,012,563,000.00bn.
Also, prioritized in the budget are Economic and social sectors which received N200, 132,170 000.00bn and N141, 180,049,000.00bn respectively representing 50.46% and 35.60%
Administrative and law and justice sectors are taking N50.9bn representing 22.8% and in 4.1bn representing 1.04% of the total budget.
Nwifuru while presenting the estimated bill christened “Budget of Economic and Social Development”, he expressed hope that the budget estimates would guarantee industrialization, economic growth and improved standard of living in the state.
He noted that his administration believes that educational training should be repositioned to guarantee entrepreneurial knowledge and the acquisition of skills for economic self-reliance at all levels.
“Pursuant to this, therefore, we have introduced many reforms in the curriculum of basic and secondary education sector to emphasize technology and science.
“To give credence to this, our administration has set out to rejig teaching and learning in public schools through employment of teachers with bias in technology and entrepreneurial education”, he said.
