Expectedly, the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Barrister Babatunde Fashola, has the highest budget in the 2016 budgets, with a total sum of recurrent and capital budgets of N467 billion. This underscores the government’s determination to execute capital projects in this fiscal year. Also, the security sector is given attention. This is seen in the budgets for the Ministry of Defence (N428,098,182,742), the Police Formation (N300,100,330,698), Ministry of Interior (N198,352,766,543) and the Office of the National Security Adviser (N90,350,068,052). The allocations to the security sector show that this government, like the previous regime, has put national security on the front burner. It is expected that the Police formations across the country would be better trained to maintain security, and most importantly, improve on its intelligence network to ensure that the Boko Haram menace is brought under control. With the substantial allocation to the Ministry of Interior, Niger...