The Kano State House of Assembly has passed a substantial supplementary budget of N215.3 billion for the 2025 fiscal year.
The approval was granted on Monday following the adoption of a formal request sent by Governor Abba Yusuf, which was read during a plenary session last week presided over by the Speaker, Jibril Falgore.
Presiding over the session, Speaker Falgore stated that the assembly had “carefully reviewed and debated the supplementary appropriation before passing it into law.”
He emphasised the legislature’s commitment to rigorous oversight, noting that it would ensure proper monitoring of Ministries, Departments and Agencies to “guarantee the judicious use of the funds.”
Falgore added, “The House will continue to monitor implementation of the supplementary budget to make sure that the money allocated is used strictly for the purposes intended.”
The supplementary budget was passed after thorough deliberations by the members.
The Majority Leader of the House, Alhaji Lawan Husseini, explained that the additional funds would be utilised for the upkeep of newly established MDAs that were not captured in the original budget.
Husseini further elaborated that part of the funds would also be “channelled to schools’ renovation, infrastructural development, and urban renewal projects.”
With this latest approval, the total 2025 budget for Kano State has now risen to over N935 billion.
The original budget, which was presented to the assembly in November 2024 and tagged the “Budget of Hope, Human Capital, and Economic Development,” initially stood at N719.8 billion.
It had earmarked N457.08 billion, representing 64 per cent, for capital expenditure, and N262.67 billion, representing 36 per cent, for recurrent expenditure.
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