by Chinedu Brown
Cross River’s 2018 budget dwarfs other states Appropriation bill for the current year including Lagos. The state budgets N1.3trn for 2018, how it will implement this humongous budget even with a 2017 total revenue that is less than N42bn is yet to be ascertained. See list of states’ budget for 2018 and their total revenue for 2017.
|
S/N |
State |
2018 BUDGET |
Status |
Total Revenue Available to States in 2017 (FAAC and IGR) source: NBS
|
| 1 | Cross River | 1.3trn | Passed | N41,556,344,958.62 |
| 2 | Lagos | 1.046 trn | Passed | N423,662,733,799.91 |
| 3 | Akwa Ibom | 646.65bn | Passed
|
N159,571,299,818.13 |
| 4 | Rivers | 510bn | Passed | N209,177,175,571.48 |
| 5 | Ogun | 343.9bn | Passed | N101,021,009,796.63 |
| 6 | Bayelsa | 318bn | Passed | N117,782,055,801.97 |
| 7 | Delta | 308bn | Passed | N163,091,715,230.31 |
| 8 | Oyo | 271.57bn | Passed | N66,921,678,307.51 |
| 9 | Kano | 246bn | Passed | N107,558,870,712.62 |
| 10 | Sokoto | 220.5bn | Passed | N50,262,499,379.05 |
| 11 | Kaduna | 216.6bn | Passed | N77,337,660,410.76 |
| 12 | Katsina | 213.6bn | Passed | N52,369,719,590.00 |
| 13 | Ebonyi | N208bn | Yet to be Passed | N40,593,793,106.20 |
| 14 | Kwara | N190.99bn | Passed | N52,745,067,241.00 |
| 15 | Benue | 190.03bn | Passed | N52,200,786,109.05 |
| 16 | Ondo | 181.4bn | Passed | N56,825,119,305.17 |
| 17 | Borno | 181.3bn | Passed | N51,519,067,228.36 |
| 18 | Adamawa | 177.9bn | Passed | N43,637,831,761.04 |
| 19 | Osun | N176.4bn | Yet to be passed | N22,167,815,516.17 |
| 20 | Imo | 175bn | Passed | N44,967,267,720.30 |
| 21 | Anambra | N170.9bn | Passed | N58,703,624,151.59 |
| 22 | Bauchi | N167.9bn | Yet to be passed | N43,884,590,631.65 |
| 23 | Kogi | 151.7bn | Passed | N50,891,101,896.66 |
| 24 | Kebbi | 151.2bn | Passed | N44,470,712,738.47 |
| 25 | Edo | 150.09bn | Passed | N62,187,828,682.46 |
| 26 | Plateau | N145.5BN | Passed | N40,408,444,571.17 |
| 27 | Abia | 141bn | Passed | N53,793,844,714.50 |
| 28 | Jigawa | 138.7bn | Passed | N51,914,950,145.11 |
| 29 | Niger | N134.29bn | Passed | N48,991,617,052.49 |
| 30 | Zamfara | N133BN | Passed | N34,476,823,153.25 |
| 31 | Nasarawa | N125.4bn | Passed | N41,371,899,987.60 |
| 32 | Gombe | N114bn | Passed | N36,505,252,910.50 |
| 33 | Taraba | N104.3BN | Passed | 39,686,467,229.54 |
| 34 | Enugu | 103.6bn | Passed | N59,872,780,862.69 |
| 35 | Ekiti | 98.6bn | Passed | N30,601,165,536.86 |
| 36 | Yobe | N92bn | Passed | N34,476,823,153.25 |