The Federal Ministry of Interior has been added to the list of five ministries that have complained of zero or little capital disbursement in the country’s 2025 budget.
The Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said his ministry received zero capital budget allocation for two consecutive fiscal years, 2024 and 2025.
Tunji-Ojo made the revelation during a recent budget defense session before the joint committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives in Abuja.
His comment further confirms Nigeria’s state of cash crunch in the last two fiscal years.
Tunji-Ojo described the situation as a major setback to project implementation and infrastructure development under the ministry.
“For two consecutive years, we have recorded zero percent capital release,” he told lawmakers, noting that performance on capital projects equally stood at zero percent, he said.
DAILY POST reports that the Ministers of Health, Justice, Power, Transportation, Women Affairs, and Social Development had complained of zero and little release of capital budget allocation in 2025.
This comes ahead of the National Assembly’s move to approve Nigeria’s 2026 Appropriation Bill of N58.18 trillion, presented by President Tinubu in December 2025.
