 The Lagos state government says 27.3% of its entire 2023 budget amounted to 482.86 billion era will be spent on modern infrastructure. Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget Samuel Egubbe announced this to journalists during a press conference in Olaosa Ikeja, plus TV news correspondent Love Ikeko Koyedekon reports. Akosu would describe the plight of Benwe pensioners as worsening by the day over unpaid salary areas and its upshoots from Nigeria Union of pensioners, said. This briefing paves the way for further analysis of the Lagos state's 2023 budget by officials led by the Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget Sam Egubbe. Christianed budget of continuity, Egubbe said it was prepared to continue the good works of the Babajidi Sawulu administration. The Commissioner explained that 13% of the budget is allocated for provision of affordable and world-class education, healthcare and social services to make the system accessible and affordable for the teaming populace. The aspiration is that Lagos will have reliable and sufficient infrastructure that meets the needs of a 21 century city. The state is totally committed to ensuring that we grow our stock of infrastructure in transportation, in education, health, technology, food processing and sports amongst others. Egubbe further gave a breakdown of the budget analysis. We have allocated a total of 552 billion in human capital development representing 31% of the total budget. Included in this is the budget for education of 157 billion, health 149 billion, our personnel costs 228 billion and various other social interventions of about 18 billion. The commissioners for health, education, finance, transportation, works and infrastructure spoke on areas that affect them. We intend to improve government services because government revenue is not just about taxes. When we improve government services, government can charge on its services to the people and people will be happy to pay because they are getting value for money. We are planning to continue to invest in technology in schools, we are planning to continue to build up our science labs, sports facilities and so on and continue training our teachers. Projects like regional road will still continue and we hope that by the grace of God we should be able to finish that end of this year. Projects like my weekly shower will also try to round up that. The 1.76 trillion euro 2023 budget is made up of 1.020 trillion euro for capital expenditure and 748.097 billion euro for the current expenditure, including debt servicing. The total revenue dependent budget is estimated at 1.418 trillion euro while the deficit funding requirement is 350.411 billion euro.