{"id":81477,"date":"2026-01-12T05:44:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81477"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:44:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:44:38","slug":"fg-to-spend-n92-9bn-on-electricity-diesel-for-mdas-in-2026-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/12\/fg-to-spend-n92-9bn-on-electricity-diesel-for-mdas-in-2026-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"FG to Spend N92.9bn on Electricity, Diesel for MDAs in 2026 Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has proposed N92.9 billion for electricity and diesel consumption by ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), in the 2026 fiscal year, reflecting the continued strain of unreliable power supply on public finances.<\/p>\n<p>Details from the 2026 Appropriation Bill show that the allocation covers recurrent energy expenditure by federal institutions, including payments for grid electricity and diesel-powered alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Despite ongoing power sector reforms, the breakdown indicates that MDAs still rely heavily on backup power sources to sustain daily operations, pointing to persistent challenges with electricity supply from the national grid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Federal Government has proposed N92.9 billion for electricity and diesel consumption by ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), in the 2026 fiscal year, reflecting the continued strain of unreliable power supply on public finances. Details from the 2026 Appropriation Bill show that the allocation covers recurrent energy expenditure by federal institutions, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1756,1720,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-energy","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81477","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81479,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81477\/revisions\/81479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}