The budget clock is ticking very fast for President Bola Tinubu’s administration as it juggles 2024 and 2025 fiscal years, leaving a number of developmental projects untouched.
Concerns are already mounting among economists that President Tinubu’s promise to end the nation’s long-running practice of overlapping budgets by March 31, 2026, may be difficult to fulfil, given persistent bureaucratic delays, weak fiscal discipline and deep-rooted inefficiencies in the country’s public finance system.
While presenting the 2026 Appropriation Bill
