Government Spending

by Opeoluwa Quadri The President presented the proposed 2018 budget to a joint sitting of the National Assembly yesterday. The budget is tagged the budget of consolidation. Here is the key figures of the proposed budget in brief. Budget estimate: N8.612...

by YWriter Project title Agency Cost Fishery and aquaculture development and youth empowerment in Ogbaru, Anambra state NIFF, New Bossa/Ministry of Agric 75,000,000 Construction of 3 NOS motorized boreholes in Warri, federal constituency Rural Development/Ministry Agric 27,000,000 Entrepreneurship Management skill development for cassava value chain for the youths of...

by Chinedu Brown The question is whether these states can justify the allocations they received. Apart from these most of these states are over reliant on federal allocation to the point that they generate low IGR within their states. Most...

by YWriter This is the consensus reached by voters on a poll conducted on the issue by YMonitor. The poll was based on a thread on twitter by YMonitor which revealed the amount each of the states received as federal...

by YWriter S/N States Federation Account Allocation (FAA) 2016. # 1 Lagos 178,606,493,854.14 2 Ogun 57,362,408,575.36 3 Rivers 134,870,667,278.36 4 Edo 59,278,008,837.96 5 Kwara 49,222,542,289.48 6 Delta 126,621,398,438.93 7 Kano 111,380,002,329.61 8 Cross River 55,771,945,495.55 9 Enugu 56,123,326,156.66 10 Oyo 80,349,610,722.30 11 Abia 54,400,939,511.55 12 Kaduna 78,554,203,037.18 13 Plateau 57,794,404,593.55 14 Akwa Ibom 150,238,498,696.05 15 Kogi 63,998,636,681.55 16 Osun 62,985,226,855.55 17 Benue 69,928,787,692.35 18 Bauchi 68,136,764,933.47 19 Ondo 70,343,574,708.16 20 Taraba 52,769,573,806.68 21 Adamawa 58,489,518,680.81 22 Zamfara 53,119,877,025.68 23 Imo 67,717,778,855.94 24 Niger 70,831,185,155.64 25 Bayelsa 99,291,071,848.36 26 Nasarawa 47,554,540,407.21 27 Sokoto 65,979,243,303.62 28 Katsina 83,279,473,947.46 29 Ekiti 47,564,063,908.13 30 Gombe 46,952,352,244.00 31 Yobe 53,936,297,357.10 32 Jigawa 68,522,798,932.74 33 Kebbi 60,886,882,102.18 34 Ebonyi 46,665,951,480.45 35 Borno 73,800,935,256.90 36 Anambra 60,100,365,047.16 37 FCT 19,272,644,365.47 Total(States&LGCs) 2,662,701,994,413.30 Source: WWW.EconomicConfidential.com YMonitor Accountability Watch: Internally Generated Revenue of States in the year 2016 Ranking states by internally generated revenue and federal allocation in 2016

by Opeoluwa Quadri S/N States Population (based on 2006 census figures) Internally Generated Revenue (IGR for 2016, # 1 Lagos 9,113,605 302,425,091,964.78 2 Ogun 3,751,140 72,983,120,003.85 3 Rivers 5,198,716 85,287,038,971.02 4 Edo 3,233,366 23,041,425,599.71 5 Kwara 2,365,353 17,253,829,559.51 6 Delta 4,112,445 44,057,915,472.72 7 Kano 9,401,288 30,959,027,531.92 8 Cross River 2,892,988 14,776,808,331.83 9 Enugu 3,267,837 14,235,512,227.00 10 Oyo 5,580,894 18,879,084,132.00 11 Abia 2,845,380 12,694,839,539.40 12 Kaduna 6,113,503 17,051,864,537.13 13 Plateau 3,206,531 9,191,372,277.87 14 Akwa Ibom 3,902,051 23,269,750,752.08 15 Kogi 3,314,043 9,569,124,487.16 16 Osun 3,416,959 8,884,756,040.35 17 Benue 4,253,641 9,556,495,064.33 18 Bauchi 4,653,066 8,677,265,878.00 19 Ondo 3,460,877 8,684,406,578.63 20 Taraba 2,294,800 5,895,538,974.32 21 Adamawa 3,178,950 5,788,979,592.34 22 Zamfara 3,278,873 4,777,169,537.80 23 Imo 3,927,563 5,871,026,976.75 24 Niger 4,112,445 5,881,584,409.47 25 Bayelsa 1,704,515 7,905,458,280.30 26 Nasarawa 1,704,515 3,402,616,062.14 27 Sokoto 3,702,676 4,545,765,527.76 28 Katsina 5,801,584 5,545,900,833.33 29 Ekiti 2,398,957 2,991,041,855.48 30 Gombe 2,365,040 2,941,438,110.63 31 Yobe 2,321,339 3,240,867,567.79 32 Jigawa 4,361,002 3,535,349,908.61 33 Kebbi 3,256,541 3,132,343,261.58 34 Ebonyi 2,176,947 2,342,092,225.07 35 Borno 4,171,104 2,675,723,063.89 36 Anambra 4,177,828 -- 37 FCT 1,406,239     Total   801,951,625,136.55 Source: WWW.EconomicConfidential.com

by Ajadi Daniel Thirty six states generated N801bn of IGR in the year 2016 as against N2.6trn they got from Federation Account in the same year; this is based on a report by Economic Confidential. The magazine reported that “Lagos...

by  Chinedu Brown N415 billion was shared by the three tiers of government being revenue for April 2017. N274.210 billion was received for the month compared to the N331.583 billion received last month. The Federal government received N136.633 billion; the states...

by Opeoluwa Quadri S/N States Amount  (N) 1 Abia N8.42 bilion 2 Adamawa N7.8 billion 3 Akwa Ibom N34.88 billion 4 Anambra N8.7 billion 5 Bauchi N7.9 billion 6 Bayelsa N22.97 billion 7 Benue N8.16 billion 8 Borno N9.74 billion 9 Cross River N4.28 billion 10 Delta N21.54 billion 11 Ebonyi N7.56 billion 12 Edo N6.5 billion 13 Ekiti N4.97 billion 14 Enugu N7.86 billion 15 Gombe N6.35 billion 16 Imo N7.92 billion 17 Jigawa N9.66 billion 18 Kaduna N10.56 billion 19 Kano N14.02 billion 20 Katsina 10.05 billion 21 Kebbi N8.37 billion 22 Kogi N8.28 billion 23 Kwara N6.9 billion 24 Lagos N19.03 billion 25 Nasarawa N7.41 billion 26 Niger N9 billion 27 Ogun N4.98 billion 28 Ondo N10.22 billion 29 Osun N1.76 billion 30 Oyo N8.9 billion 31 Plateau N5.7 billion 32 Rivers N26.8 billion 33 Sokoto N9.07 billion 34 Taraba N6.9...

by Opeoluwa Quadri The Federal government, 36 states have so far shared N1.4 trillion from the federation account, being revenue generated in the first quarter of 2017., reported This day. The breakdown is contained in the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee...