Nigeria, April 8 -- The Kano State Commissioner For Health, Abubakar Yusuf, says his ministry's annual budget is unrealistic as officials always "copy and paste" the previous year's budget documents.

Mr Yusuf stated this on Monday while inaugurating a committee to drive the preparation of the budget and track its implementation, the ministry's spokesperson, Ibrahim Abdullahi, said in a statement.

"The move is very important looking at the unrealistic nature of the budget of the Ministry characterised by repeated copy and paste over the years, lamenting that what one sees in the budget of the Ministry is just duplication year by year.

"There is the need for timely and early preparedness of the budgeting process for better results upon i...