{"id":60617,"date":"2025-02-06T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60617"},"modified":"2025-02-06T06:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:11:30","slug":"mixed-reactions-trail-nigerias-n54-2tn-2025-budget-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/06\/mixed-reactions-trail-nigerias-n54-2tn-2025-budget-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Reactions Trail Nigeria\u2019s N54.2tn 2025 Budget Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stakeholders in Nigeria\u2019s economy are divided over the Federal Government\u2019s decision to raise the 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu formally communicated the adjustment\u2014driven by increased revenue from key government agencies\u2014in letters read on the Senate floor Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Initially presented in November as the \u2018Budget of Restoration: Securing Peace, Rebuilding Prosperity,\u2019 the proposal is yet to be passed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The revision has sparked debates on its potential economic impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi Stakeholders in Nigeria\u2019s economy are divided over the Federal Government\u2019s decision to raise the 2025 budget from N49.7 trillion to N54.2 trillion. &nbsp; President Bola Tinubu formally communicated the adjustment\u2014driven by increased revenue from key government agencies\u2014in letters read on the Senate floor Wednesday. &nbsp; Initially presented in November as the \u2018Budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60619,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60617\/revisions\/60619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}