Politics Economic Confidential: LIST of 15 States That May Go Bankrupt Soon

[ProfRem]

An investigation by the Economic Confidential has shown that Fifteen States may go bankrupt as their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in 2015 were far below 10% of their Federation Account Allocations (FAA) in one year from June 2015 to May 2016.

The report further indicates that the IGR of Lagos State of N268bn is higher than that of 32 States combined together excluding Rivers, Delta and Ogun whose IGRs are very impressive.

The 32 other states merely generated a total of N257bn in 2015.

The latest report on IGR reveals that only Lagos State generated more revenue than its allocation from the Federation Account by 150% and no any other state has upto 100% of IGR to the federal largese.

Here are states that may not survive without the Federation Account due to poor internal revenues include:

1. Yobe which generated meagre N2.2b compared to a total of N57.4bn it received from the Federation Account Allocation (FAA) from June 2015 to May 2016 representing about 3.9%.

2. Zamfara with IGR of N2.7bn compared to FAA of N56.6bn representing 4.8%;

3. Ekiti N3.2bn compared to FAA of N50.460bn representing 6.5%;

4. Borno with N3.5bn compared to N78.7bn of FAA representing 4.5%

5. Kebbi with IGR of N3.5bn compared to N64.8bn of FAA representing 5.5%

6. Taraba which generated N4.1bn compared to FAA of N56bn representing 6.4%;

7. Nassarawa N4.4bn compared to FAA of N50.5bn representing 8.5%;

8. Adamawa N4.4bn compared to FAA of N62.2bn representing 7.1%;

9. Gombe N4.7bn compared to FAA of N49.8bn representing 9.6%;

10. Jigawa N5bn compared to FAA of N73bn representing 7%;

11. Bauchi N5.3bn compared to FAA of N72.6bn representing 7.4%;

12. Imo N5.4bn compared to FAA of N71.6bn representing 7.6%;

13. Katsina N5.7bn compared to FAA of N88.8bn representing 6.5 %;

14. Niger N5.9bn compared to FAA of N74.8bn representing 8% and

15. Sokoto N6.2bn compared to FAA of N69.7bn representing 8.9%.

- Vanguard