In their 2018 budgets, three states, Ekiti, Ondo, and Yobe, allocated an amount in excess of N5.7bn to travelling and training expenses while allocating N2.5bn to agriculture, checks by The PUNCH have revealed.
This is in spite of the mantra of the current administration about the need to diversify the economy from being over-reliant on oil revenue to other non-oil areas, particularly agriculture.
Source: Punch Newspaper.
