Just 11 out of the 36 states in Nigeria will generate enough income to pay workers’ salaries in the 2024 fiscal year, FIJ has found.

This was gathered from comparing the 2024 personnel costs and revenue estimates for the 36 Nigerian states in the country. FIJ found that only Kaduna, Edo, Enugu, Gombe, Kano, Kwara, Rivers, Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Zamfara states will generate enough money to offset personnel costs in the 2024 fiscal year.

For most of the remaining states, however, federal allocations constitute more than 50 percent of their total revenue for the 2024 fiscal year. By implication, these states cannot fund the salaries of their workers without federal government disbursement or a loan.


STATE IGR (Naira) PERSONNEL COST (Naira)
Kaduna 120,001,818,558. 76,206,260,777

Edo 71,691,130,754.62 65,167,577,994.68

Gombe 22,318,245,500. 21,925,000,000.

Kano. 101,956,874,541. 87,465,825,287

Rivers 231,057,836,945 99,588,939,939.39

Kwara. 71,788,763,444. 50,997,629,672.

Lagos 1.251 trillion

Ogun. 240,538,655,485. 122,400,076,062.

Osun 104,770,526,130. 82,361,903,000

Zamfara 55,534,775,000. 35,579,537,000.

States with Higher Revenue Than Personnel Cost in 2024


FIJ also compared the revenue estimates of the 36 states to their total recurrent expenditures to determine which of the states would be self-sufficient. FIJ found only Lagos, with a N1.25 trillion revenue, and Enugu, with a N252 billion revenue, can fund their 2024 expenditures comfortably.

Only Rivers State and Lagos have revenue projections that exceed the federal allocations budgeted for them in 2024.

On the other hand, six states, including Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Nassarawa, Rivers, Plateau, and Yobe state will spend more than their independent revenue in 2024 to service both foreign and domestic loans.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the cumulative revenue of the states in Nigeria increased by more than N1 trillion in 2022, with Lagos and Rivers as the top two earners for that fiscal year.

States in Nigeria generate revenue from services provided by MDAs, taxes and fines paid by citizens and industries local to their respective states.

Malroux:
Our lokan. Ebin pawa o.

Throwback:


You remind me of Anambra under Peter Obi.

By now, Nigeria would have turned to Zimbabwe if the clueless ticket hunter had yes daddy his way into power.

Anambra really suffered.

omohayek:

Hilarious, considering Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Kwara are amongst the states listed as being able to pay their workers, while not a single state from your region is. Who exactly is "ebi" supposed to "pa" again?

Throwback:


You remind me of Anambra under Peter Obi.

By now, Nigeria would have turned to Zimbabwe if the clueless ticket hunter had yes daddy his way into power.

Anambra really suffered.

Malroux:
Thiefnubuu is evil.

ILoveNG:
Even their states are not performing, but Tinubu is the cause of their problem.

Unfortunate lives!

omohayek:

Hilarious, considering Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Kwara are amongst the states listed as being able to pay their workers, while not a single state from your region is. Who exactly is "ebi" supposed to "pa" again?

Nicepoker:
Allow those States to manage their resources let's see. Useless FG. All they do is grab state resources and run.

Malroux:
Thiefnubuu is evil.

shortIGBOman:
Anambra
Enugu
Abia
Imo
Ebonyi

These states fail to make the list.

dettolgel:


Can you go back and reread the post. Enugu is somewhere in the test.

favor914:
Who are you calling Useless? Blame your fore fathers for making the law as is, before you were conceived.

Or maybe you think that you are more intelligent than your father?

Throwback:
You mean Anambra of Peter Obi could not grow to this level, yet he wanted to rule Nigeria with what competence?