Ebonyi: Education, health lead as Nwifuru presents N396.5bn budget

From Uchenna Inya, Abakaliki

Ebonyi State Governor Francis Nwifuru, on Thursday, presented a total of N396,589,00,620 bn 2025 budget estimates to the state House of Assembly.

The education sector takes N70,143,386.00 bn as the highest, followed by health with N39,012,563,000.00 bn in the budget estimates.

Presenting the estimates christened “Budget of Economic and Social Development,” Nwifuru expressed the hope that the budget estimates would guarantee industrialisation, economic growth, and an 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 the basic and secondary education sectors to emphasise technology and science.

“To give credence to this, our administration has set out to rejig teaching and learning in public schools through the employment of teachers with bias in technology and entrepreneurial education,” he said.

In the budget estimates, the Economic and social sectors are taking the lead, with N200, 132,170 000.00 bn and N141, 180,049,000.00 bn, respectively, representing 50.46% and 35.60%

Administrative and law and justice sectors are taking N50.9bn, representing 22.8%, and N4.1bn, representing 1.04% of the total budget.