Buni presents ₦515.6bn 2026 budget to Yobe Assembly

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has presented a budget of Five Hundred and Fifteen Billion, Five Hundred and Eighty-Three Million Naira (₦515,583,000,000) for the 2026 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly.

Tagged the “Budget of Economic Growth and Infrastructural Transformation,” it is designed to cover capital, recurrent, overhead, and personnel costs.

This represents an increase over the ₦320,811,000,000 budget for the outgoing year.

The budget allocates the sum of One Hundred and Ninety-Two Billion, One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Million Naira (₦192,128,000,000), representing 37.3%, to recurrent expenditure.

A total of Three Hundred and Twenty-Three Billion, Four Hundred and Fifty-Five Million Naira (₦323,455,000,000), representing 62.7% of the budget, is earmarked for capital expenditure.

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The Governor listed healthcare delivery, education, agriculture, and infrastructural development, including road construction, electricity, water supply, and others, among the key areas that received government attention in the outgoing year.

Governor Buni further disclosed that the government would establish a dialysis centre in Gashua to provide relief to kidney patients.

He added that the government would also construct a new general hospital in Potiskum to decongest the Specialist Hospital in 2026.