2025 Budget: FG appropriates N106bn to aviation sector

The Federal Government has appropriated N105,953,496,365 to the aviation industry in the 2025 budget sent to the National Assembly.

This amount of money is an increase from the total budget of N63,317,450,275 in the outgoing year.

The government also planned to refund the sum of N4 billion to the Kebbi State government on the construction of Sir Ahmadu Bello International Airport, Birnin Kebbi.

Additionally, the government through the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development further planned to spend N5 billion for the construction of corporate headquarters building and staff accommodation for the staff of the ministry and its agencies. It said the project was “ongoing.”

Further breakdown of the N106 billion appropriation bill for the ministry in 2025 showed that the ministry would have N71,123,368,069; Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), N9,819,554,829, and the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria, N7,975,364,319.

Others were the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), N10,035,209,148 in the budget and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency was allocated N7,000,000,000 in the 2025 budget.

However, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) are still exempted from the annual budgets.

The government proposed to spend N5 billion on the power/energy improvement at Lagos, Abuja and others in 2025. It said the project was “ongoing.”

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Again, the ministry said it would spend N5 billion in the development of Aerospace Development in Abuja, stressing that this was already “ongoing.”

Besides, the government planned to pay N1.7 billion as general consultancy for its projects, which it said was “ongoing.” The budget, however, did not expatiate on the general consultancy projects.

The ministry would also expend N5 billion as safety and security critical projects and airport certification nationwide.

The project, according to the proposal, included curbing of wildlife, Category 3 Airfield Lighting (AFL) and purchase of disabled aircraft recovery equipment, saying that this was already “ongoing.”

The government also planned to acquire fire trucks for airports at the sum of N2 billion in 2025.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.