Federal Government to conduct statistical surveys with N947million Naira.

 

  The Federal Government is proposing to spend a total sum of N946.6m to carry out 21 statistical surveys in the 2017 fiscal period through the National Bureau of Statistics.


    According to reports, details of the spending are contained in the 2017 budget proposal, which was submitted to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari on December 14th 2016.

   The N7.3tn budget has a capital vote of N2.24tn, representing 30.7 per cent, while the recurrent component stood at N2.98tn, with the rest set aside for debt servicing.

   A breakdown of the N946.6m shows that the government is planning to spend the sum of N240.25m to carry out job creation and labour force survey, while N201.84m has been allocated for the agriculture sample survey.

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