Nigeria, March 27 -- Despite the paucity of funds that will see the Nigerian government borrow over a third of the funds needed to finance the 2021 budget, the government is still pushing ahead to renovate its parliamentary complex with N42 billion.

It is for the purpose of carrying out mechanical and electrical repairs in some parts of the National Assembly building that the government is planning to spend an equivalent of $113 million - an amount four times the total 2021 budget allocated to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, one of Nigeria's biggest teaching hospitals, which caters for the health needs of millions of residents of Lagos and its environs.

The N42 billion is also more than the budgetary allocations to other major t...