Recurrent spending dominates in 30 states while capital lags

...as 30 states spent 6.27trn in 6 months Cross Rivers, Taraba, Benue states spent over 70 percent of their first half 2025 budget on recurrent expenditure, while capital projects gulp less than 30 percent of their budgets. Meanwhile, Imo, Abia and Bayelsa states spent the least, below 32 perc