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Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in December, proposed a ₦58.47tn budget for the 2026 fiscal year.

Africa's most populous nation is battling insecurity that left hundreds dead in 2025. As published by the Budget Office of the Federation, the Defence Ministry takes the highest allocation after the Finance (₦16tn), Budget & Planning (₦9.102tn) and Works (₦3.485tn) Ministries in that order.

2026 Budget Details of Ministry of Defence:

1. NIGERIAN ARMY
Personnel: 1,254,578,791,788
Overhead: 81,905,650,221
Capital: 167,766,827,712
Total Allocation: 1,504,251,269,721

2. NIGERIAN NAVY
Personnel: 322,906,426,508
Overhead: 49,232,066,996
Capital: 71,778,216,357
Total Allocation: 443,916,709,861

3. NIGERIAN AIRFORCE
Personnel: 229,897,541,932
Overhead: 68,575,453,013
Capital: 110,674,045,165
Total Allocation: 409,147,040,110

4. DEFENCE
Personnel: 224,660,197,422
Overhead: 7,782,107,884
Capital: 24,571,726,934
Total Allocation: 257,014,032,240

5. TRAINING AND DOCTRINE COMMAND NIGERIAN ARMY
Personnel: 102,409,015,650
Overhead: 674,031,225
Capital: 9,350,253,111
Total Allocation: 112,433,299,986

6. DEFENCE MISSIONS
Personnel: 58,567,622,416
Overhead: 21,471,963,508
Capital: 3,504,432,160
Total Allocation: 83,544,018,084

7. DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Personnel: 48,373,656,796
Overhead: 12,101,384,418
Capital: 8,323,010,975
Total Allocation: 68,798,052,189

8. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE - MOD/HQTRS
Personnel: 17,331,327,040
Overhead: 8,922,209,777
Capital: 14,982,170,035
Total Allocation: 41,235,706,852

9. NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY (NDA)
Personnel: 30,893,377,642
Overhead: 5,949,039,012
Capital: 3,562,822,613
Total Allocation: 40,405,039,267

10. DEFENCE SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Personnel: 25,222,203,651
Overhead: 6,501,615,667
Capital: 8,297,979,460
Total Allocation: 40,021,798,778

11. COMMAND AND STAFF COLLEGE, JAJI
Personnel: 11,223,536,424
Overhead: 12,219,368,924
Capital: 12,448,495,467
Total Allocation: 35,891,400,815

12. NATIONAL DEFENCE COLLEGE
Personnel: 12,700,432,490
Overhead: 10,893,699,713
Capital: 5,675,983,243
Total Allocation: 29,270,115,446

13. AIRFORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KADUNA
Personnel: 14,420,483,973
Overhead: 804,372,224
Capital: 1,969,395,644
Total Allocation: 17,194,251,841

14. NIGERIAN ARMED FORCES RESETTLEMENT CENTRE, LAGOS
Personnel: 9,827,500,705
Overhead: 1,178,506,568
Capital: 2,172,216,082
Total Allocation: 13,178,223,355

15. DEFENCE SPACE SCHOOL, OROGUN, DELTA STATE
Personnel: 8,572,116,049
Overhead: 1,000,000,000
Capital: 1,400,000,000
Total Allocation: 10,972,116,049

16. ADMIRALTY UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, IBUSA, DELTA STATE
Personnel: 4,724,432,284
Overhead: 1,506,194,768
Capital: 3,177,045,366
Total Allocation: 9,407,672,418

17. DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BUREAU
Personnel: 5,603,931,682
Overhead: 1,378,101,487
Capital: 2,363,068,162
Total Allocation: 9,345,102,331

18. NATIONAL HYDROGRAPHIC AGENCY
Personnel: 5,009,410,835
Overhead: 1,506,194,768
Capital: 2,827,045,367
Total Allocation: 9,342,650,970

19. AIR POWER CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
Personnel: 4,756,119,286
Overhead: 1,999,999,998
Capital: 2,000,000,000
Total Allocation: 8,756,119,284

20. DEFENCE INDUSTRIES CORPORATION OF NIGERIA (DICON)
Personnel: 3,905,545,357
Overhead: 774,174,124
Capital: 2,973,596,173
Total Allocation: 7,653,315,654

21. DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE SCHOOL
Personnel: 0
Overhead: 2,101,726,882
Capital: 2,418,399,577
Total Allocation: 4,520,126,459

22. DEFENCE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CIVILIAN PENSIONS BOARD
Personnel: 0
Overhead: 0
Capital: 1,400,000,000
Total Allocation: 1,400,000,000

23. MILITARY PENSION BOARD
Personnel: 0
Overhead: 556,012,285
Capital: 838,426,276
Total Allocation: 1,394,438,561

Grand Totals for Ministry of Defence
- Personnel: ₦2,392,883,869,930
- Overhead: ₦297,034,773,462
- Capital: ₦464,474,756,899
- Total Allocation: ₦3,154,393,400,291

Source

*Excluding Service-Wide Votes

Defence is expensive, we know but there should be commensurate results to show.

Defence dey work like a ANT but chop like a Elephant

Funds don land for Those Army Chiefs and Generals to finance their Estates projects....

Ministry of Defense budget should naturally take the lion's share because of its strategic demands.

However, it has become a money-spinning rollercoaster due to the inherent corruption associated with such large spendings with the lives of an average citizen still unsafe.

And guess what the money will be used for other than loot, loot and loot?

Not too bad. Make we just see results

Food is ready for legislooters, awon lamba ti de ooo

They should give us the statistics of how they spent the previous budget.

The defense ministry can't be getting trillion of naira as budget and yet some rag tags are still causing insecurity

Of course, he has to bribe them heavily to avoid stories that touch.

Dude can even buy the military with the entire budget to keep them busy counting money.

You mean budget for the northerners, because nah there the bulk of the money dey go. .

We have wasted so much money fighting terrorism since 2009. Funds that could easily be channeled to building multiple giant projects like Lagos-Calabar expressway have been wasted on fighting a terrorism that seems to have no end. To make matters worse, northern elites like Malami and Bala Mohammed are alleged to be financing these terrorists. This is just pathetic.

That's why those benefitting wouldn't want the insecurity to end.

I go like join this Defence...

Algerian government Budget as of 2025 was $25billion for security while Nigeria was budgeting 3 trillion hmm

fergie001:
Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in December, proposed a ₦58.47tn budget for the 2026 fiscal year.

Africa's most populous nation is battling insecurity that left hundreds dead in 2025. As published by the Budget Office of the Federation, the Defence Ministry takes the highest allocation after the Finance (₦16tn), Budget & Planning (₦9.102tn) and Works (₦3.485tn) Ministries in that order.



*Excluding Service-Wide Votes

We know the game...
They are busy apportioning their loots where it will be stored

Every year billions goes to one small sector yet no change. No be juju b that

kalaye:
Algerian government Budget as of 2025 was $25billion for security while Nigeria was budgeting 3 trillion hmm

Then naija 3 trillion to dollars is $2 billion +

GOFRONT:
Defence dey work like a ANT but chop like a Elephant

Funds don land for Those Army Chiefs and Generals finance their Estates projects....

More funds for the incompetent dullards in uniform to loot.

AmishaCandra:
I go like join this Defence...

Top defence or lower defence, which one. Mind you all this money na top e dey go, na crumbs dey go lower, you still want to join?

fergie001:
Nigeria's President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in December, proposed a ₦58.47tn budget for the 2026 fiscal year.

Africa's most populous nation is battling insecurity that left hundreds dead in 2025. As published by the Budget Office of the Federation, the Defence Ministry takes the highest allocation after the Finance (₦16tn), Budget & Planning (₦9.102tn) and Works (₦3.485tn) Ministries in that order.



*Excluding Service-Wide Votes

That is just $2,206,733,687.36
Not even up to $3 billion.
For a nation fighting insurgency,this is like a drop in the ocean.

Good one the war on terror, it ain't cheap.

Karlman:
Of course, he has to bribe them heavily to avoid stories that touch.

Dude can even buy the military with the entire budget to keep them busy counting money.

You people get serious problem o

If dem do, unah go talk. If dem no do, unah go talk 😂

seunmsg:
We have wasted so much money fighting terrorism since 2009. Funds that could easily be channeled to building multiple giant projects like Lagos-Calabar expressway have been wasted on fighting a terrorism that seems to have no end. To make matters worse, northern elites like Malami and Bala Mohammed are alleged to be financing these terrorists. This is just pathetic.

How conspicuous that one just left the APC while the other has vowed never to join the APC no matter the intimidation. Where is Yahaya Bello and Tinubu's renewed hope ambassador, Ifeanyi Okowa? Matawalle is also doing fantastically well as Tinubu's defence minister.

Yet no result on insecurity year in year out.

AMINDA:
How conspicuous that one just left the APC while the other has vowed never to join the APC no matter the intimidation. Where is Yahaya Bello and Tinubu's renewed hope ambassador, Ifeanyi Okowa? Matawalle is also doing fantastically well as Tinubu's defence minister.

You have evidence any of them were funding terrorism?

seunmsg:
We have wasted so much money fighting terrorism since 2009. Funds that could easily be channeled to building multiple giant projects like Lagos-Calabar expressway have been wasted on fighting a terrorism that seems to have no end.

To make matters worse, northern elites like Malami and Bala Mohammed are alleged to be financing these terrorists. This is just pathetic.

You APC people are really shameless hypocrites.

If they are financing terrorists, why are they not prosecuted yet?

What is Tinubu wasting trillions fighting in Lagos with his TAX monster plan, such that he can’t get pipe borne water to all households in the detty and smelly state he alone built

seunmsg:
You have evidence any of them were funding terrorism?

How much evidence have you shared on your Malami and Bala Mohammed financing terrorist allegations

Karlman:
Of course, he has to bribe them heavily to avoid stories that touch.

Dude can even buy the military with the entire budget to keep them busy counting money.

You’ll still complain if he didn’t allocate money to the military. As long as it’s not your brother that’s the president. What didn’t you say about Buhari?
Everyone now know your cheap scope.

Hope say them comot task

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seunmsg:
You have evidence any of them were funding terrorism?

You didn't present the evidence you have on Bala Mohammed nor Malami either. We all know the charade will end if they both agree to align with the APC today. The desperation to have everyone in his corner is laughable.