Vanguard News Again, Nigeria gets it wrong on tobacco control funding On By Philip Jakpor Nigeria’s 2021 national budget has not disappointed pessimists. Like previous years public health was relegated to the back seat in terms of priority and funding. The breakdown of the approved budget shows that the health sector received only N547 billion, representing about seven per cent of the budget’s total of N13.58 trillion. This meagre allocation falls far short of the 15 per cent recommended by African governments in the Abuja Declaration in 2001, in which they agreed that such allocation on a yearly basis can go a long way in addressing deficiencies in their health systems.