{"id":164378,"date":"2025-05-26T23:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2025-budget-n393bn-worth-of-streetlights-should-make-nigeria-light-of-the-world-kalu-aja"},"modified":"2025-05-27T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:04:06","slug":"2025-budget-n393bn-worth-of-streetlights-should-make-nigeria-light-of-the-world-kalu-aja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/2025-budget-n393bn-worth-of-streetlights-should-make-nigeria-light-of-the-world-kalu-aja","title":{"rendered":"2025 budget: N393bn worth of streetlights should make Nigeria \u2018light of the world\u2019 \u2013 Kalu Aja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A financial analyst, Kalu Aja, has said that with Nigeria\u2019s 2025 budget for streetlights amounting to N393.29 billion, the country is supposed to be the \u2018Light of the World.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He made this known in his comment on X on Monday, reacting to BudgIT\u2019s revelation of project insertions by the National Assembly in the 2025 budget.<\/p>\n<p>He noted lamented the amount budgeted per streetlight, which stood at N266 million.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cWith the amount of \u201cstreetlights\u201d in this 2025 budget, Nigeria is supposed to be the light of the world. 1,477 streetlights for N393.29 billion, that\u2019s N266 million per light. Are we installing the sun?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recall that last week Monday, BudgIT revealed that the National Assembly inserted 11,122 projects worth N6.93 trillion into the 2025 budget of N54.99 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Successive yearly budget in Nigeria had contained several project insertions by the National Assembly that had little or no impact on the country\u2019s infrastructural gap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A financial analyst, Kalu Aja, has said that with Nigeria\u2019s 2025 budget for streetlights amounting to N393.29 billion, the country is supposed to be the \u2018Light of the World.\u2019 He made this known in his comment on X on Monday, reacting to BudgIT\u2019s revelation of project insertions by the National Assembly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,29,28,2660],"tags":[14055,14047,254],"class_list":["post-164378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-to-homepage","tag-2025-budget","tag-kalu-aja","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2025 budget: N393bn worth of streetlights should make Nigeria \u2018light of the world\u2019 \u2013 Kalu Aja - 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