Ikengawo: And we're debating the best governor as if we have government.

Tofax: [s] Daily Trust quoted a revenue advocate as saying that the
state governments are simply too lazy to generate revenues internally because of the oil money they receive from Abuja every month.
Mr Dauda Garuba, coordinator of the Revenue Watch Institute, said “because of the oil revenue they collect monthly, state governors are no longer serious in making money for their states.”
Daily Trust investigations show that each of the 36 states pays yearly salaries in two-digit billions, but most of them generate IGR in single-digit billions annually.
Lagos generated N219 billion in 2012, three times its
annual wage bill of N76.5 billion.States that generated more than N10 billion in 2012 are Kano, Kaduna, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom.Among states with fairly strong revenue bases are Rivers,which generates the second highest IGR of N66.2 billion in 2012, but has an annual wages bill of N96 billion.Edo made N18.9 billion revenue but is weighed down by a salaries bill of N28 billion yearly, while Cross River generated N12.7 billion though it pays N22 billion wagesannually.
Even though Kano has the highest IGR in the North, the N24 billion it generated in 2012 is not enough to pay salaries of its workers, which is N36 billion yearly.
Kaduna, the second internal revenue earner in the North,
garnered N11.5 billion but which is less than half its N27.4 billion annual wage bill.The situation with the remaining states is worse, as their annual wage bills are several times larger than their internally generated revenues.
For instance, Zamfara’s internally generated revenue is N2.5 billion in 2012, while its annual wage bill is N13.2
billion; Yobe generated N1.7 billion, and has a yearly
salaries bill of N18 billion; while Adamawa’s N23 billion
wage bill is five times higher than its IGR of N4.6 billion.
Even oil-rich Bayelsa State generated only N3 billion in
2011, but pays N48 billion in salaries yearly.
Nasarawa made N4.1 billion in 2012 but spends N24 billion yearly in salaries; Sokoto generated N3.8 billion in 2010 and spends N16.8 billion on annual wages; and Kogi got
N3.1 billion in 2012 but it is workforce soaks up N44 billionyearly.
Kwara (salaries, N11 billion; revenue, N7.2 billion), Benue
(revenue, N8.4 billion; salaries, N34.8 billion) Katsina (salaries, N14.4 billion; revenue, N5 billion), Bauchi (salaries, 26 billion; revenue, N4.1 billion), Ondo (revenue, N10.1 billion; salaries, N48 billion), Plateau (revenue, N7 billion; salaries, N20.7 billion), Kebbi (revenue, N5.4 billion; salaries N12 billion), Niger (revenue, N3.7 billion;
salaries N31.2 billion), and Gombe (salaries, N14.4;
revenue, N3.7 billion).
Others are Abia (salaries, N30 billion; revenue, N3 billion), Akwa Ibom (salaries, N33.2 billion; revenue, N13.5 billion),Anambra (revenue, N6.1 billion; salaries, N16.3 billion),Borno (salaries, N20.7 billion; revenue, N2.4 billion), Delta (revenue, N45.5 billion; salaries, N85.2 billion) and Ebonyi (salaries, N16.8 billion; revenue, N14 billion).
There are also Ekiti (salaries N24 billion, revenue N3.8
billion), Imo (revenue N6.8 billion, salaries N22.8 billion),
Jigawa (salaries N33.5 billion, revenues N1.4 billion), Osun (salaries N22.8 billion, revenue N5 billion), Oyo (salaries N49 billion, revenue N14 billion), Taraba (revenue N3.4 billion, salaries N21.6 billion).Daily Trust quoted Revenue Watch Institute coordinator Garuba as saying: “It is unfortunate that the governors, particularly in the North abandoned agriculture. Every state
has the potential to be self-sufficient only if the chief
executive knows what he is doing.
“I still wonder why Niger and Nasarawa states can’t utilise
their proximity to Abuja by creating mega cities in Zuba and Mararaba respectively. These places, if well planned, can rake in billions for the two states. But, go there, what you find is terribly unorganised slums.”
Garuba noted that a recent report shows that “Yobe State alone can produce beans enough to supply the needs of West Africa,” lamenting: “But look at it today, the state is engulfed in conflicts.”
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Ngwakwe: Whoever knows the author of this scrap should warn him/her to desist from invoking useless statistics and assigning figures with no reference or verifiable source.

This article should be pulled off the web space and erased from google search.

Damn Nigeria Journalists

superstar1:

see whining

just because Enugu or Anambra was not said to be self sufficient.

Calm down. It is a clarion call to all us, to task our political leaders more.

ferdsmart: Who wrote that trash must be mad.. Anambra State Govt can pay her salaries.. Nonsense... Salries:6.1bn, revenue:16.3bn

hisblud: well said. All those clamoring for naija disintegration should take note.

dayokanu: [size=15pt]States that generated more than N10 billion in 2012 are Kano, Kaduna, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom[/size]

In addition to Lagos I see 3 states from the SW, Our South south states of Edo Delta, Cross-River and Akwa-Ibom too representing

How come the Israeli states are mostly missing no wonder dem wan attache by force

dayokanu: [size=15pt]States that generated more than N10 billion in 2012 are Kano, Kaduna, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom[/size]

In addition to Lagos I see 3 states from the SW, Our South south states of Edo Delta, Cross-River and Akwa-Ibom too representing

How come the Israeli states are mostly missing no wonder dem wan attache by force

IGBO-SON:


^^^Who are the so-called 'Isreali states'?.......just asking!

Dhelake: How on earth is Bayelsas wages 48bn ... what's their workers population.... ohh!! They pay some absent permanent secretary

Dhelake: How on earth is Bayelsas wages 48bn ... what's their workers population.... ohh!! They pay some absent permanent secretary

Dhelake: How on earth is Bayelsas wages 48bn ... what's their workers population.... ohh!! They pay some absent permanent secretary

IGBO-SON:


^^^Who are the so-called 'Isreali states'?.......just asking!

dayokanu: [size=15pt]States that generated more than N10 billion in 2012 are Kano, Kaduna, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Enugu, Edo, Delta, Cross River and Akwa Ibom[/size]

In addition to Lagos I see 3 states from the SW, Our South south states of Edo Delta, Cross-River and Akwa-Ibom too representing

How come the Israeli states are mostly missing no wonder dem wan attache by force

dayokanu:

TABIAviv, Jananbrasalem, ebonyihaifa imoashdod etc