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From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
The National Sports Commission (NSC) has set aside N450 million for refreshments, meals, honorarium and sitting allowances in 2026.
According to the breakdown of the 2026 Annual Appropriation Bill with the National Assembly, while refreshments and meals will gulf N100 million, the Commission revealed that it will expend N350 million on honorarium and sitting allowances out of the large chunk of N12.505 billion set aside in its Miscellaneous line item for this year alone.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has also set aside N23 million for the same purpose this year, earmarking the sum of N3 million for refreshments and N20 million for sitting allowances respectively from the N1.358 billion contained in its miscellaneous line item.
The Commission’s leadership equally confirmed the possible participation of Nigeria in almost all the sporting tournaments this year with the sum of N10.471 billion it set aside for sporting activities.
It also budgeted over N885.352 million for fueling and lubricants which will ensure that its motor vehicles, other transport equipment, plants and generators are kept running without experiencing any blackout throughout this year.
More importantly, the Commission sent a warning to troublemakers to limit their boundaries for any form of trouble by earmarking N140 million for litigations and legal services this year.
According to the proposed Appropriation, it also indicated its readiness to execute countless number of sports projects this year by budgeting N185,649 billion as capital expenditure, indicating that it intends to spend N4.555 billion on purchase of motor vehicles this year too.
While the construction of office buildings and provision of sporting facilities will gulp N15.500 billion and N34.284 billion respectively, it will expend N2.155 billion for provision of other facilities.
