Despite high personnel cost, only 18.62% of Jigawa expenditures to be funded by IGR in 2025
By Aminu Abubakar
A SolaceBase review of the 2025 budget document of Jigawa state has shown that the state plans to spend a sum of N698.300 billion as total expenditure.
However, the state plans to earn only N130.682 billion in the year.
This would mean that the state plans to earn only 18.62% of its planned budget internally.
The state plans to spend N536.7 billion on its capital needs. It would mean that only 24.2% of its capital budget would be funded.

The state also plans to get N219.5 billion from grants, Sukuk and loans.
This would mean that 31% of the state budget will be funded from loans and related sources.
Further details show that a sum of N34 billion is expected to be gotten from the federation account, and a sum of N80 billion is expected to be gotten from Value Added Tax.
The personnel cost for ministries, departments and agencies is estimated at N66.2 billion, personnel cost for local education authorities is budgeted at N24.5 billion, overhead costs and other non-salary expenditure stood at N59 billion, public debt charges are expected to gulp N4.8 billion.
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Jigawa state’s most recent budget performance however raises concern on the capacity of the state to raise the N130 billion it has earmarked for the 2025 fiscal year.
Between January and September 2024, only N18 billion was generated by the state as internally generated revenue.
The state planned to generate N51.4 billion in the fiscal year.
This represents only 10.3% of the N174 billion the state spent in the same period.
In 2023, the state generated only N15.6 billion as internally generated revenue between January and September. This represents 12% of the 118.1 billion spent in the same period by the state.
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In 2023, the state planned to generate N22.4 billion internally.
The state got N73.1 billion from the federally distributed revenue.
Jigawa state’s poor revenue runs despite developmental challenges facing it, for instance, 43% of school-aged children in the institution lack access to education, and 73% of households lack access to sanitary facilities, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, multidimensional poverty index.
In Jigawa State there are 2.46 million persons.
Other challenges facing states in Nigeria include access to quality healthcare, and good roads among other basic infrastructures.
There have been calls for states to diversify their sources of revenue and block corruption loopholes, to improve their revenue capacities.
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