2024 budget: MDAs to spend N14bn to buy computers, N28bn for software

The federal government plans to spend over N14.39 billion on purchasing computers — laptops and desktops — in over a 100 ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) in the 2924 fiscal year.

Another N28 billion was also budgeted for the acquisition of computer software by more than 90 MDAs, TheCable Index analysis of the 2024 budget shows.

A software is a set of instructions, data or programmes used to operate computers and execute specific tasks.

On December 1, 2023, the upper and lower parliament passed the 2024 budget proposal of N27 trillion for the second reading.

President Bola Tinubu later presented the appropriation bill to a joint session of the national assembly in November.

The proposed 2024 budget is still awaiting the final approval of the national assembly.

Specifically, in the 2024 budget, 109 MDAs plan to spend N14,397,404,379 on purchasing laptops and desktops; while a total of 96 MDAs are expected to expend N28,369,134,635 on acquiring computer software.

Here are the top 10 MDAs with the highest amount budgeted for the purchase of computers:

1. Ministry of education — N9,067,331,533 
2. Ministry of works — N330,000,000
3. Ministry of solid minerals — N300,000,000
4. Federal Cooperative College, Ibadan — N250,000,000
5. Federal University Teaching Hospital, Enugu — N200,000,000 
6. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control — N155,000,000
7. Usman Dan Fodio Teaching Hospital, Sokoto — N149,983,754
8. Federal University of Health Science, — N138,250,000
9. Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) — N130,000,000
10. Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) — N120,000,000

THE TOP 10 MDAs WITH HIGHEST BUDGET FOR COMPUTER SOFTWARE

Also, the 10 MDAs with the highest budget for computer software acquisition include:

1. Office of the chief of staff to the president — N10,128,500,000
2. Federal ministry of works — N2,498,800,000
3. Federal ministry of budget and economic planning — N1,879,691,122
4. National Drug Law Enforcement Agency — N1,827,500,000
5. Nigeria Immigration Service — N1,660,300,309
6. Lagos University Teaching Hospital — N1, 317,622,508
7. Federal ministry of housing and urban development — N775,140,261
8. Federal ministry of marine and blue economy — N525,000,000
9. National Primary Health Care Development Agency — N511,151,300
10. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission — N413,745,756