A civic organization that facilitates societal change through technology, BudgIT, on Tuesday lamented the continued budget secrecy by state governments in Nigeria, by failing to publish their 2019 spending plans. So far, 12 Nigerian state governments, including Lagos, the country’s commercial capital, BudgIT said, is yet to make its budget public, despite the $750m incentive provided by the World Bank to encourage public finance transparency in the country. Others yet to publish details of their 2019 budget online, as of June 3, 2019, according to Shakir Akorede, Communications Associate at BudgIT, are: Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Imo, Nasarawa, Oyo, Rivers, Sokoto and Zamfara, while Kwara State’s budget “went missing on its website immediately after the recent transition. Following eight months of painstaking research, BudgIT said the assessment of the availability of public finance documents in state government domains reveals that only 25 states’ approved budgets...