{"id":18638,"date":"2024-02-23T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/hardship-utilize-borrowing-wisely-group-tasks-jigawa-govt\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T15:02:31","slug":"hardship-utilize-borrowing-wisely-group-tasks-jigawa-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/hardship-utilize-borrowing-wisely-group-tasks-jigawa-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardship: Utilize borrowing wisely \u2013 Group tasks Jigawa Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Jigawa State Government has been advised to utilize its resources and invest in critical sectors to uplift the livelihoods of citizens and foster sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director Prime Initiative for Community Development and Fiscal Transparency, Muhammad Abdu Dutse made the call on Friday during a \u2018Debt Justice campaign\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said the state\u2019s total debt has increased to N63.36 billion as of June 30, 2023, reflecting both domestic and foreign components.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Jigawa remains the least indebted state in the country and in the Northwest Zone, with a total debt growth of 60.11 per cent from 2016 to 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He said Jigawa State, despite its commendable track record of fiscal discipline and debt sustainability, is not immune to the prevailing economic challenges facing Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The group underscored the need for strategic planning and allocation, ensuring that resources are directed towards essential services and initiatives that directly benefit the general populace.<\/p>\n<p>The group also advised the state government to halt borrowing for non-productive expenditures and focusing resources on initiatives that foster economic growth and development.<\/p>\n<p>Hardship: Utilize borrowing wisely \u2013 Group tasks Jigawa Govt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jigawa State Government has been advised to utilize its resources and invest in critical sectors to uplift the livelihoods&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1202,814,15],"tags":[903,818,180],"class_list":["post-18638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardship","category-jigawa","category-news","tag-hardship","tag-jigawa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}