N2.5bn for mass weddings in Kano state in 2025
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Wedding gifts on display at a gorgeous mass wedding in Kano
At the Kano State Government’s 2025 budget breakdown, the State’s Commissioner for Planning and Budget, Musa Sulaiman Shanono, said the state’s House of Assembly approved N719.7 billion budget for the fiscal year 2025.
The Planning and Budget Commissioner said the Kano State government earmarked a sum of, N2.5 billion to conduct mass weddings in the state.
Musa Sulaiman Shanono further explained that the money will be used for the logistics, preparation and actual conduct of the quarterly mass wedding across the 44 Local Government Authorities, LGAs, of Kano State.
Recall that the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP-led government under Governor Abba Yusuf had, in 2023, conducted a mass wedding for over 1,800 couples in the state at the cost of N854 million.
The commissioner said a sum of N6.2 billion has been allocated for free and compulsory education. N4 billion will cover tuition and textbooks. A sum of N2.2 billion will be expended on feeding the pupils.
Shanono disclosed that the education sector got the most of the budget with an allocation of N205.9 billion, representing 29% of the total budget.
He thus enunciated, “the 2025 proposed budget tagged Budget of Hope, Human Capital, and Economic Development” seeks to further consolidate on the people and infrastructure-centric programs and projects already being executed”.
He added that “the proposed budget had a total size of N549.1 billion as presented to the State House of Assembly”.
The budget and planning commissioner however, added that ”The House, in line with the provision of the law, embarked on scrutiny of the proposed budget, consultations, and public hearing and ultimately appropriated the sum of N719.7 billion for the 2025 fiscal year.
Shanono said the budget was passed into law on Thursday, 20th December, 2024, and assented to by the Executive Governor, on 31st December 2024.
The budget commissioner thus enunciated, ”The 2025 approved budget has a total size of N719.7 billion, representing an increase of N170,595,000,000, equivalent to 31%, over what was initially submitted by Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf, to the State House of Assembly.
He said the total recurrent expenditure is N262.6 billion, and the total capital expenditure is N457 billion.
He further explained, “The ratio of recurrent to capital expenditure is 36:64. The budget is higher than the 2024 by N282.4 billion, which represents a 65% increase.
“The total approved recurrent revenue for the fiscal year 2025 budget stands at N617 billion, consisting of N85.8 billion in internally generated revenue (IGR) and N531 billion in expected revenues from Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) as against the 2024 total recurrent revenue of N379.7 billion. By extension, the 2025 recurrent revenue is higher than that of the year 2024 by N237 billion, representing an increase of 62.5%.
The budget commissioner added, “It is equally important to note that the projected Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) is less than that of year 2024, by N16 billion, representing a 15.8% decrease. Capital Receipts Ladies and gentlemen, the estimated capital receipts for the year 2025 stand at N73.7 billion. While the Treasury Opening Balance is to the tune of N29 billion.
Isolating the rationale for the upward review of the budget by the legislators, Shanono explained, “The approved budget is above the state’s projected available resources as contained in the 2025-2027 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) due to the improvement of new sources of revenue from FAAC as a result of subsidy removal and other capital receipts.
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