By Deng Athian<\/p>\n
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Northern Bahr El Ghazal State (NBGs) cabinet has approved and passed a budget of 8.6 billion South Sudanese pounds (SSP) for the current fiscal year.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This comes after a council of ministers meeting in Aweil town, where the details of the budget were presented and approved.<\/p>\n Budget Breakdown and Highlights: Total budget of\u00a08,650,657,308 SSP. It covers five counties and two municipal councils (excluding the Ministry of General Education, whose budget comes directly from Juba)<\/p>\n The key focus of the fiscal budget is\u00a0Job creation through a 400% salary increase for state employees<\/p>\n Dominic Kang Deng, the acting NBGs Minister of Information, spoke to the media following the budget approval after their cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n “We agreed and passed the amount of 8 billion 650 million 657 thousand and 3 hundred and eight SSP. This budget covers five counties and two municipal councils except the Ministry of General Education which its budget comes from Juba.” He told the media.<\/p>\n He further emphasized the importance of the budget, highlighting its potential to create job opportunities through the significant salary increase for state employees.<\/p>\n The approved budget will now be presented to the NBGs Legislative Assembly for further readings and potential amendments before being officially assented by the state governor for implementation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Deng Athian Northern Bahr El Ghazal State (NBGs) cabinet has approved and passed a budget of 8.6 billion South Sudanese pounds (SSP) for the current fiscal year. This comes after a council of ministers meeting in Aweil town, where the details of the budget were presented and approved.[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-northern-bahr-el-ghazal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21074,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions\/21074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}