{"id":20098,"date":"2026-01-13T05:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20098\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:36:06","slug":"fg-seeks-private-capital-for-airports-slashes-2026-aviation-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/20098\/","title":{"rendered":"FG seeks private capital for airports, slashes 2026 aviation budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            Nigeria\u2019s aviation sector faces tighter fiscal conditions in 2026 as the federal government slashed total budgetary allocation to the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development to N87.3 billion, representing a 23 percent decline from the N113.19 billion approved in the 2025 Appropriation Act.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the 2026 Appropriation Bill obtained by BusinessDay show that capital expenditure still dominates the ministry\u2019s spending profile, reflecting the government&#8217;s push to complete projects across the sector.<\/p>\n<p>For the core ministry, total al<\/p>\n<p>\n                                Nigeria\u2019s aviation sector faces tighter fiscal conditions in 2026 as the federal government slashed total budgetary allocation to the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development to N87.3 billion, representing a 23 percent decline from the N113.19 billion approved in the 2025 Appropriation Act.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nDetails of the 2026 Appropriation Bill obtained by BusinessDay show that capital expenditure still dominates the ministry\u2019s spending profile, reflecting the government&#8217;s push to complete projects across the sector.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nFor the core ministry, total al                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s aviation sector faces tighter fiscal conditions in 2026 as the federal government slashed total budgetary allocation to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[122],"class_list":{"0":"post-20098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-nigeria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}