2024 Budget: Agric research institutes to spend 65% allocation on salaries, allowances

NINETEEN research institutes under the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (except colleges of agriculture) will receive N51.66 billion allocation from the federal budget in 2024, but 64.64 percent of the money is going to personnel costs. Personnel cost covers “total cash compensation, costs of training programs, hiring expenses, severance payments, payroll taxes, workers’ compensation, […]