The Federal Government plans to spend about N206.50bn on poverty alleviation-related projects in the 2026 budget, an amount that represents far below one per cent of the total N58.47tn spending proposal submitted to the National Assembly.
A review of project-level data from the 2026 Appropriation Bill shows that all items directly tagged to poverty alleviation across ministries, departments, and agencies, as well as the Service Wide Vote, add up to N206.5bn.
When measured against the proposed total budget of N58.47tn, this translates to about 0.35 per cent of overall federal spending for the year. When compared with the capital budget of N23.21tn, the poverty-related envelope represents roughly 0.89 per cent.
The bulk of this allocation comes from the Service Wide Vote, where two major recurrent provisions under the National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy dominate the figures.
The first is the National Poverty Reduction with Growth Strategy under FGN commitment, including NSIP upscaling with a provision of N100bn, while the second is the NPRGS recurrent allocation of another N100bn.
Together, they account for N200bn, which is over 96 per cent of the entire poverty alleviation envelope for 2026. This means that without the Service-Wide Vote entries, all MDAs combined account for only N6.50bn in poverty-related projects.
The Border Communities Development Agency headquarters records N63m across two projects targeted at the Zamfara North Senatorial District. These include N28m for poverty alleviation and empowerment for women in Zamfara North and N35m for poverty alleviation and empowerment in the same district. These are geographically focused interventions that make up a small fraction of the overall allocation.
