They said, “Contrary to Section 48 of the FRA, at the time of presenting the 2026 Executive Budget, there was no approved MTEF available to Nigerians, and the 2026 budget had not been passed as of April. They further decried the poor release of allocation in the 2025 budget and raised concern over a situation where the Federal Ministry of health received budget release of 36million out of the 218billion for capital budget. ActionAid Country Director Andrew Mamedu wondered if the government was listening to the outcries of Nigerians saying for years there have been issues they have being raising but the government still go ahead with whatever they want to do. He highlighted some of the issues to include budget deficit saying every year the National Assembly members keep injecting constituency projects into the budgetHe said “I know of a ministry that submitted a budget proposal of about N240billion however when the budget returned to them it was about N1trullion. All these are happening and it is Nigerians that are suffering the consequences”.

Source: The Guardian April 08, 2026 00:46 UTC