breakdown of the budget, showing recurrent allocations but no details of capital votes. A total of N845 billion was provided for recurrent and service-wide votes for the security sector, which includes the Armed Forces, Police, National Security Adviser’s office, and the para-military services. This amount excludes the capital votes for these agencies as those details appeared to be missing from the bill submitted by Mrs Okonjo-Iweala. If the capital vote is put at 27 per cent of the total for the security sector, then the security vote could hit about N1 trillion. This is about the same as the amounts received by the sector in two previous budgets of 2012 and 2013.
Based on the estimates submitted by the Finance Minister, recurrent allocation for Defence (including Army, Air Force and Navy), is N306 billion; police formation and commands, N286 billion; office of the National Security Adviser, N67 billion; Interior Ministry, N145 billion; and Police Affairs Ministry, N4.5 billion. Also part of the security spending are provisions under ‘service-wide votes’ for Nigerian Army Quick Response Group and arrears, N12 billion; and Operations-Internal for the Armed Forces, N24 billion. In the recurrent budget, education got the next highest allocation after security, with N373.4 billion. Others are Works, N28.5 billion; Petroleum Resources, N55.7 billion; Science and Technology, N24 billion; Power, N3.9 billion; and Justice N19.4 billion. Information got N22.4 billion, Foreign Affairs N46.5 billion, Agriculture N31.4 billion, Water Resources N7.7 billion, and Youth Development N75.9 billion. Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation is allocated N46.2 billion, Mines and Steel Development N10.6 billion, Lands and Housing N5.6 billion, Aviation N6 billion, and Finance N216.4 billion Other allocations include the Presidency with N25 billion, whereas the proposed National Dialogue will gulp N700 million, Stipends for 30,000 ex-militants is allocated N23.6 billion, with another N35.4 billion allocated for transformed ex-militants.

Ex-militants are gulping over 50billion?more than budget for most of the ministries.what kind of budget is this

So Health wasn't even given Priority?
Because ASUU went on 6months Strike una give them plenty money! Ok na

Delafruita: Ex-militants are gulping over 50billion?more than budget for most of the ministries.what kind of budget is this

The relative peace in the Niger delta is the reason Nigeria is able to fund this budget at all.

Sunny_bobo:

The relative peace in the Niger delta is the reason Nigeria is able to fund this budget at all.

Do we really have relative peace over there? Just coming back from the creek yesterday to Port Harcourt. I will tell you I enjoyed my 30minutes speed boat journey.

Sunny_bobo:

The relative peace in the Niger delta is the reason Nigeria is able to fund this budget at all.

And thats enough reason to give a group of thugs and gangsters money meant for the rest of of the Nation?

Noticed that the high cost of maintaining Nigeria's unity far outstrips the cost of educating nigerians , keeping them informed, keeping nigerians health and feeding nigerians, the unity at all costs syndrome needs to be revisited.

The costs of keeping nigeria United is becoming unbearable and unnecessarily expensive, must the country be United and at what cost.
Borno, yobe, Adamawa contributes less than is needed to keep them part of the union

#25b for the presidency,#59.1b for Ex-militants(Dokubo Asari included),#6b for Odua to buy more Armour Cars,the list goes on and on!What a appalling Nigeria State which we are!

ISpiksDaTroof:

And thats enough reason to give a group of thugs and gangsters money meant for the rest of of the Nation?

It's neither here nor there bro. Would you rather we font give them that and end up not having money to fund necessary services?

ebenezer4o2: #25b for the presidency,#59.1b for Ex-militants(Dokubo Asari included),#6b for Odua to buy more Armour Cars,the list goes on and on!What a appalling Nigeria State which we are!

Asari Dokubo is not part of the amnesty program. He rejected it in its entirety.

Sunny_bobo:

It's neither here nor there bro. Would you rather we font give them that and end up not having money to fund necessary services?

I'd rather the Government does what it has to do to ensure that a group of criminals dont hold the rest of the country to ransom.

free money for the military chiefs and militant.