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BudgIT's analysis of Nigeria's 2025 budget reveals ₦266 million per streetlight—a figure that transforms basic infrastructure into a luxury expenditure, raising fundamental questions about fiscal accountability.

Key Takeaways:
  • 1,477 streetlights budgeted at ₦393.29 billion total
  • Individual streetlight cost exceeds the annual GDP of some nations
  • Pattern extends across projects: ₦212 million per borehole, ₦487 million per security vehicle
  • Total constituency insertions worth over ₦2.7 trillion across 5,545 projects
Each ₦266 million streetlight could fund 200 typical Nigerian homes or an entire rural health clinic. When citizens struggle with basic electricity, these figures exist in a parallel economic universe.

BudgIT's breakdown exposes how budget mathematics have fundamentally broken down. Whether due to inefficiency, embedded costs, or creative accounting, Nigeria's infrastructure pricing deviates from global standards. A single streetlight now costs more than most people will earn in ten lifetimes.