Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, has presented a total of N396, 589, 00,620 billion as 2025 budget estimates to the state House of Assembly.
Presenting the budget estimate christened: “Budget of Economic and Social Development” at the State House of Assembly complex Nkaliki on Thursday, the governor disclosed that the education sector took the highest chunk of the budget with N70,143, 386, 000.00bn, followed by health with N39,012,563,000.00billion.
Nwifuru expressed hope that the budget estimates would guarantee industrialisation, economic growth and improved standard of living in the state.
He noted that 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 sector to emphasise technology and science.
“To give credence to this, our administration has set out to rejig teaching and learning in public schools through employment of teachers with bias in technology and entrepreneurial education,” he said.
In the budget estimates, economic and social sectors are taking highest with N200, 132,170 000.00 billion and N141, 180,049,000.00 billion respectively representing 50.46% and 35.60%.
Administrative and law and justice sectors gulped N50.9 billion, representing 22.8% and N4.1 billion representing 1.04% of the total budget.
