Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun has said that government will allocate 60 billion naira ($180 million) more spending on capital projects.
The funds will form part of the 2016 budget and addition to earlier releases.
Nigeria has been struggling to boost its economy by diversifying away from crude oil revenue.
Africa’s largest economy is in the middle of its worst financial crisis for decades as a slump in oil revenues hammers public finances and the naira.
Government capital spending so far has exceeded 400 billion naira this year, Adeosun said, despite the record budget being held up for months by wrangling between President Muhammadu Buhari and parliament.
Last month, Adeosun said the country will commence international borrowing in the third quarter of the year.
The government has said it plans to borrow up to $10 billion, with about half of that coming from foreign sources, to help make up a budget shortfall exacerbated by a slump in oil prices.
Nigeria had initially planned to hold Eurobonds road shows in March but postponed sales as investors complained about the overvalued naira, according to bankers.
Nigeria’s government has said it wants to change the balance of its debt portfolio so that 40 percent of its borrowing comes from abroad, compared with 16 percent now. It also wants to extend the average maturity of its debt profile.
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