2021 Budget: How N5.2 trillion deficit will be financed - Finance Minister

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The government wants to borrow about N709.69 billion from multilateral and bilateral groups

Although the minister said Nigeria’s total oil production capacity was about 2.5 million barrels per day, the country’s current production is 1.7 million barrels per day, including the 300,000 BPD of condensates, in compliance with the quota ceiling by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries .

Total Federal Government budget , the minister said, is about N13.08 trillion, with total deficit of about N5.196 trillion constituting about 3.64 per cent.On the performance of the 2020 Budget, the minister said it was prepared based on oil benchmark price projection of $57 per barrel, oil production capacity of 1.8 million BPD; exchange rate of N360 to the dollar; inflation rate of 14.13 per cent and GDP growth rate of 4.2 per cent.

Company Income Tax and Value added tax collections for the period were about N447.552 billion and N117.75 billion, representing two per cent and 62 per cent respectively, of the pro-rated revised revenue target.

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By next budget 2022, APC led federal government might borrow over 70% of the proposed budgetary outlay. Nigerian economy looks doomed under APC.

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