President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the 29th of November 2023, presented the 2024 budget before the joint session of the National Assembly. The budget is the largest in Nigeria’s history with a size of N27.5 trillion and a revenue projection of N18.32 trillion resulting in a budget deficit of N9.18 trillion. Revenue comprises oil revenue of N7.69 trillion, non-oil revenue of N3.52 trillion and Independent and other revenue sources of N6.86 trillion. The expenditure consists of capital expenditure of N8.72 trillion, non-debt recurrent expenditure of N9.92 trillion, debt service of N8.49 trillion and statutory transfer of
N1.38 trillion. These estimates imply that debt service is 30% of total expenditure and 95% of capital expenditure.
December 23, 2023
Nigeria Economic Update Issue 48
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Doing Business report by the World Bank ranks Nigeria as one of the top 10 economies
that showed notable improvements in doing business in 2016/2017. Precisely, the
report which presents quantitative indicators on business regulation compared
across 190 economies and ranked Nigeria 145th - up by 24 positions from
the previous report ranking, to reach its highest rank since 2013. This may not
be unexpected, given that it is consequent upon various business environment
reforms in 2016. Particularly, the Presidential Enabling Business Environment
Council (PEBEC) set up in 2016 enacted 31 reforms to improve
business(such as improving credit to small and medium-size
businesses) all of were enacted into law in May 2017.