The Kaduna State Government has earmarked N1.4 billion for the reconstruction of schools and equipping programmes across the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the project is a rollover from the 2021 budget.
This is contained in the 2022 Budget of N278.6 billion signed into law by Gov. Nasir El-Rufai on Wednesday and made available to newsmen in Kaduna on Thursday.
The document also showed that out of the N13.1 billion earmarked for the ministry of education for capital projects, N1.7 billion would be spent on intervention to improve nutrition in 26 boarding secondary schools in the state.
The government further allocated N658 million for the rehabilitation of 69 secondary schools across the state and N220 million for the supply of furniture in secondary schools.
According to the document, N1.49 billion will be spent on the rehabilitation, equipping and conversion of 16 schools across the state to full boarding facilities and N190.7 million on procurement of science, technical and vocational equipment.
It further showed that N500 million would be spent on procurement of educational materials and textbooks, while N10.4 million would be spent on the establishment and maintenance of school gardens across the state.
Also, N163.2 million was allocated for the procurement of white marker board, smartboard, and other teaching and instructional materials for schools, while N1.0 billion was earmarked for fencing of schools.
Similarly, N500 million was allocated for disaster intervention against fire, windstorms, and rainstorms in 50 secondary schools across the state.
The state government also earmarked N20.3 million for the conduct of emotional intelligence training for school Guidance and Counselors.
A total of N150 million would be spent on the development and deployment of the education portal and the sustenance of the e-learning platform.
The document also showed that N2.billion was earmarked for the World Bank-supported Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment project and N3.0 billion was for Global Partnership for Education.
NAN reports that the N13.1 billion allocated to the ministry for capital projects was higher than the N10.7 billion allocated in 2021.
Out of the N278.6 billion total budget estimate, N94.1 billion was earmarked for recurrent expenditure, and N184.5 billion for capital expenditure, representing 66.4 per cent of the total budget.
Of the total budget, the education sector got the largest chunk of N69.8 billion, representing 25 per cent with 41.7 billion allocated for capital spending and N28 billion for recurrent expenditure.
Kaduna State University got N9.7 billion with N5.9 billion earmarked for recurrent expenditure and 3.8 billion for capital projects, while Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic got N3.5 billion with 1.5 earmarked for capital projects and N2 billion for recurrent.
College of Education, Zaria got a total of N2.9 billion with N1.1 billion for capital expenditure and N1.8 billion for recurrent.
Kaduna State Scholarship and Loan Board got N3.3 billion, with N2.1 billion allocated for the award of foreign scholarship to qualified applicants and N1.1 billion for the award of local scholarship, while N51.3 million was for recurrent expenditure.
While signing the budget on Wednesday, Mr El-Rufai described the document as “the budget of the people and budget of sustainable growth”.
He commended the Kaduna State House of Assembly for its thorough work on the draft budget estimates.
The governor pointed out that the assembly increased the budget from the N233 billion proposed by the executive to N278.58 billion to accommodate more project requests from citizens.
NAN
