Adamawa amends 2025 budget by N14bn to accommodate new projects

The Adamawa State Government has increased its 2025 budget by N14 billion to accommodate the building of an international conference centre and some other newly initiated projects.

The State Executive Council, SEC, at its 4th sitting for the year 2025, approved the N14 billion budget amendment to “cater for the construction of projects and the deployment of funds to other projects not captured in the approved 2025 budget of the state,” according to the Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Mr Iliya James.

Briefing newsmen after the meeting on Friday at the Council Chambers at the Government House, Yola, James explained that the budget amendment caters for the construction of Adamawa State International Conference Centre, the upgrade of Adamawa College of Agricultural Science and Technology in Ganye, and deployment of money to fund the Adamawa Rural Access Agricultural Marketing Project.

“The approval is not a supplementary budget but an amendment to cater for projects not captured in the 2025 budget,” the commissioner explained.

Shedding further light on the budget amendment, the Commissioner of Budget Planning, Mr Emmanuel Piridimso said the State Executive Council approved the budget amendment/virement by looking closely at the budget and drawing money from some areas to cater for others.

Predimso highlighted that the amendment reallocates resources within the budget to fund essential new projects that Governor Ahmadu Fintiri deems urgent for the state’s development.

“The amendment of N14 billion is very necessary for the execution of these critical projects,”; he said.

He assured that the projects for which such funds were drawn will soon be executed.

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri had in December last year signed N486 billion 2025 fiscal appropriation bill into law, a law now affected not by overall reduction or increment but by project resource realocation changes, according to the explanations of the relevant commissioners