From Mika’il Tsoho, Dutse
The Jigawa Education Accountability Forum (JEAF) has called on Jigawa Higher education sector to develop and implement a targeted mechanisms to address and reverse the poor budget performance in the first quarter of 2025.
The call was made in a report of 2025 first quarter analysis of the sector, signed by the Secretary Evidence Sub Committeee of Jigawa Education Accountability Forum comrade Isah Mustapha.
The analysis which is carried out by the Forum with support from ELIP and funded by PLANE, showed that Jigawa Higher Education sub-sector posted a poor performance, implementing only 5% of its total budget allocation of over ₦101 billion.
The analysis further showed the performance as personnel, other recurrent, and capital expenditures stood at 17%, 9%, and 0.4%, respectively.
Therefore the analysis recommended more efforts to enhance the execution of other recurrent expenditures in the subsequent quarters to improve overall financial performance.
“With only 2 out of 328 planned capital interventions implemented, the sub-sector must prioritize and fast-track procurement processes to accelerate project execution”.
It also recommended that, Planning Department should ensure timely dissemination of the Quarterly Budget Implementation Plan to all MDAs, Directors, and Programme Officers to foster alignment, accountability, and improved performance.
Meanwhile, the analysis shows that, the overall Education Sector recorded notable performance in the 2025 Q1 budget implementation, achieving an overall execution rate of 21%, which represents approximately 80% of the prorated target and significantly exceeds the state’s overall performance of 9.2%.
“A breakdown by implementing MDAs shows varied outcomes between the Ministries of Basic and Higher Education.
The Basic Education sub-sector recorded an overall budget performance of 26%, with 33% for personnel, 13% for other recurrent, and 22% for capital expenditure”, the report said.
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