North -West Tops FEC’s Project Approval with N5.97TN – Budget Office

The Federation Budget Office has revealed that the northwest geopolitical zone received the largest part of the project approved by the Federal Executive Council under President Tinubu Bola.

The budget office says the zone has received a total number of N5.97 trillion or more than 40 percent of the N10.92 trillion approved by the Federal Government.

The Director General of the Budget Office, Tanimu Yakubu, revealed this in a statement on Sunday while handling controversy over the viral chart that claimed Lagos had cornered the largest part of federal projects.

He said the chart was misleading because it classified the national highway and transportation corridors that passed by lagos as a “Lagos special project.”

According to Jacobu, Lagos’s exclusive projects, such as airport fences, carter bridge rehabilitation, and other local improvements, are worth N1.2 trillion.

N2.7 Trillion Additional associated with the state, he explained, included national projects with benefits that cross the federation.

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“Virus graphics bundles together with national infrastructure, federal highway, coastal transportation corridors, and inheritance roads, and label the ‘Lagos Special Project.’ With that logic, the Kano-Maiduguri toll road can be called the ‘Maiduguri-H-only project,’ “said Jacobu. “This is a hand magic that ignores the truth: this is a national artery, not a local cup.”

The regional details of the FEC approval show that the south-south with N2.41 trillion, north-middle with N1.13 trillion, southwest (excluding lagos) with N604 billion, southeast with N407 billion, and northeast with N400 billion.

Jacobu noted that the Northwest allocation included major initiatives such as the revival of the 255-Megawatt Kaduna power plant, abandoned since the Yar’adua government, and Kaduna-Kano Expressway, Kano-Maiduguri Highway, and Sokoto-Hillela Corridor. He also appointed investment in education and security.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, repeated the administrative commitment to justice, justice, and inclusiveness in the distribution of projects and gathering promises. He quoted the main road and transportation schemes, including the Lagos-Calabar beach highway, the Badagry-Sokoto highway, and the Trans-Sahara highway, as proof of balanced development.

Idris added that the projects were expected to produce more than 250,000 jobs throughout the country, underline the focus of administration on infrastructure as a driver of economic growth.