By Victor Nwegede
Governor Francis Nwifuru on Thursday, presented a total of N396,589,00,620 billion as the 2025 budget estimates to the Ebonyi State House of Assembly.
Nwifuru disclosed this while presenting the estimates christened “Budget of Economic and Social Development at the State Assembly Hallow Chamber, Nkaliki, Ebonyi State capital.
He said that the education sector takes N70,143,386.00 billion as the highest, followed by health with N39,012,563,000.00 billion.
The governor expressed the hope that the budget estimates would guarantee industrialization, economic growth, and an improved standard of living in the state.
He said 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 emphasize 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 billion and N141, 180,049,000.00 billion, representing 50.46% and 35.60%, respectively.
He stated that the administrative and law and justice sectors would take N50.9bn, representing 22.8%, and N4.1bn, representing 1.04% of the total budget.
