Reports: 2016 Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) by Geopolitical Region

1) South-West: N404 Billion

2) South-South: N198 Billion

3) North-West: N69 Billion

4) North-Central: N54 Billion

5) South-East: N49 Billion

6) North-East: N29 Billion

Breakdown:

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South-West

Lagos: 302,425,091,964

Ogun: 72,983,120,003

Oyo: 18,879,084,132

Osun: 8,884,756,040

Ondo: 8,684,406,573

Ekiti: 2,991,041,855

Total: 414,847,500,567

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South-South

Rivers: 85,287,038,971

Delta: 44,057,915,472

Edo: 23,041,425,599

Akwaibom: 23,269,750,752

C/river: 14,776,808,331

Bayelsa: 7,905,458,280

Total: 198,338,397,405

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North-Central

Kwara: 17,253,829,559

Kogi: 9,569,124,487

Benue: 9,556,495,064

Plateau: 9,191,372,277

Nassarawa: 3,402,616,062

Niger: 5,881,584,409

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Total: 54,855,021,858

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North-West:

Kano: 30,959,027,531

Kaduna: 17,051,864,537

Zamfara: 4,777,169,537

Sokoto: 4,545,765,527

Katsina: 5,545,900,833

Jigawa: 3,535,349,908

Kebbi: 3,132,343,261

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Total: 69,547,421,134

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South-East:

Enugu: 14,235,512,227

Abia: 12,694,839,539

Imo: 5,871,026,976

Ebonyi: 2,342,092,225

Anambra: 14,791,175,253

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Total: 49,934,646,220

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North-East

Bauchi: 8,677,265,878

Adamawa: 5,788,979,592

Gombe: 2,941,438,110

Yobe: 3,240,867,567

Borno: 2,675,723,063

Taraba: 5,895,538,974

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Total: 29,219,813,184

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Please note that economic activities in the north-

east has suffered greatly from the war against Boko

Haram. Another thing that is clear from this

statistics is that every region in Nigeria depends on

oil from the Niger Delta. It is not as if they can't

work harder to survive without oil money, but if you

compare what they're generating currently to what

they're receiving in federation account allocation,

then you would understand why they're so lazy.

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Another thing from the statistics is that the South-

West is the only region in Nigeria that can survive

right now no matter what happens in the oil

industry. Funny enough, they're also the only region

making the least noise and focusing completely on

development. No wonder the economy of the

country is controlled by individuals from that region.

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Another thing to point out from this statistics is that

the south-east has no superiority claim over the

north. It is pure wickedness for those who clamour

for Biafra to watch the economy of that region

suffer while they preach about what would've been if

they had their pipe dream. Why have all those who

are promising to make Biafra heaven on earth not

coming up with those ideas to improve the IGR of

the south-eastern states, so as to at least improve

the living condition of the people living there? Look

at Lagos, look at Ogun, look at Kano, look at Rivers

State and the high IGR they all command... Igbos

are one of the biggest contributors to those IGRs,

not by force but by choice, and they do so by freely

associating with people from those regions. But

Ogun State alone generates more revenue than all

the south-eastern states combined, which means

that on the strength of this statistics, it is arguable

that the Igbos do better by associating with other

people, and will perform woefully by staying on

their own.