- PRESS
RELEASE:
- 28th
November, 2000.
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- Nasarawa State announces a budget of
Sustenance
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 NASARAWA
State Government has announced a budget of N9,784,280,000.00 Naira
for the year 2001, with a pledge to make the year a prosperous one
for its citizens.
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- The
State Governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu gave the cheering news while
presenting the state’s year 2001 budget tagged “Budget
of Sustenance” to
the State House of Assembly in Lafia.
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- This
budget is N2.498 billion over the current year budget of N7.186
billion Naira.
- Governor
Abdullahi Adamu said the 2001 budget has among its objectives, the
production of more food, enhancement of employment opportunities for
the people and rehabilitation facilities in the State health sector.
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- Other
objectives of the budget are the development and investment in the
solid minerals sector, improvement of the transport sector, the
rehabilitation and expansion of existing water supply as well as the
provision of counterpart funding for donor funded priority projects
and programmes.
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- Governor
Abdullahi however said the 2001 budget will witness a slight deficit
of N400 million Naira as the anticipated revenue during the year
would be 9.384 billion Naira while the expenditure will be 9.738
billion Naira.
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- He
said the government was determined to boost its internal sources of
revenue through rapid industrialisation. He said the state’s
second Annual Economic Submit which was being currently held in the
state capital, would work out a blue print for the effective
utilization of the State raw materials.
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- Governor
Abdullahi said “Education would continue to have the lion share of
the budget for obvious
reasons”, pointing out that 880 million Naira of the 2001 budget
had been allocated to the education sector.
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- He
said education “is the modern key to human development” and that
far reaching measures had been taken by his administration to change
the “depressing picture” it inherited. These measures include
the rehabilitation of schools, provision of free exercise books to
primary and post-primary institutions, establishment of science
schools across the state and boosting the teachers’ morale by
attending to their basic needs of housing, transportation and
enhanced living standard.
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- Other
sectors giving priority attention in the proposed budget include the
transport, housing and urban development, information and water
supply.
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- In
the information sector, government in the course of the year will
establish a state television station, convert the state newspaper, the
Nigerian Newsday, to a daily publication. To complement
the information technology programme of the government,
infrastructure will be put in place towards the establishment of an
information technology centre. The center will include a business
management information system for the benefit of the investing
community.
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- The
state house of assembly is now expected to consider the
appropriation bill.
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