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Original 2020 budget of ₦10.59tn (benchmark $57/bbl) was revised in June 2020 to ₦10.81tn (benchmark $28/bbl) reflecting the COVID-19 oil price collapse. ₦500bn COVID intervention fund created.
Pandemic2020· ₦10.81tn· Chapter I · Money
Revised Appropriation Act, 2020
₦10.81 trillion (revised down from ₦10.59tn benchmarked at $57/bbl to $28/bbl). First COVID-era supplementary.
Figure · Budget breakdown
Revised Appropriation Act 2020 — ₦10.81tn
COVID revision. Benchmark cut from $57/bbl to $28/bbl. ₦500bn intervention fund.
Total: 11,208 ₦bn. Source · Appropriation (Repeal & Enactment) Act, 2020; Budget Office.
What it cost — political & economic reality
The political and economic reality
Nigeria in 2020: who was in charge, the cabinet of the day, the GDP, and the crises that defined the period.
President · Fourth Republic
Muhammadu Buhari
2015–2023· APC
National reality
Two recessions (2016, 2020). Multiple naira devaluations. ASUU strike of 2022 closed federal universities for ~9 months. End SARS protests (Oct 2020); Lekki Toll Gate incident. Out-of-school children >18 million by 2022.
Crises of the period
- 2016 recession + FX crisis
- End SARS + Lekki Toll Gate (Oct 2020)
- COVID-19 lockdown (2020)
- 9-month ASUU strike (2022)
- Naira redesign chaos (Q1 2023)
GDP (World Bank)
$494 bn (2015) → $477 bn (2022)
Cabinet (selected portfolios)
- Finance
Kemi Adeosun (2015–18); Zainab Ahmed (2018–23)
- Justice (AGF)
Abubakar Malami (SAN)
- Education
Mallam Adamu Adamu (2015–23)
- Petroleum
Muhammadu Buhari (concurrent); Min. of State Ibe Kachikwu then Timipre Sylva
Sources · Federal Gazette 2015–23 · CBN · NBS
Methodology
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged
Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.