Nigeria, April 17 -- Twelve out of Nigeria's 36 states paid the least attention to the implementation of real and people-impacting projects, classified as capital expenditure in the 2019 Budget, recording a less than 30 percent performance, a new report says.

A report by the civic advocacy group, BudgIT, said among the 12 states, five ranked lowest.

The five states are Taraba, Ogun, Imo, Benue and Cross River.

The report showed that Cross River, which occupies the lowest position on the capital expenditure performance, budgeted N1.04 trillion for capital expenses but ended up spending N29 billion.

Taraba and Ogun budgeted N74.6 billon and N 231.5 billion but spent N12.8 billion and N35.4 billion, respectively.

Imo budgeted N205.2 bil...