Nigeria: 2018 Budget - CSJ Wants Health Allocation Up N645bn

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The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has call for the increase of the health allocation in the 2018 budget to N645bn from the total 2018 appropriation of N8.612tn.

The Lead Director of the centre Barrister Eze Onyekpere who presented a Policy Brief on "Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) Proposals in the 2018 Federal Budget" told newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja that the initial N340bn proposal fall short of the 7.5 percent of total budget as recommended in the Abuja.

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