FG, States share extra N46.6b in May

 

The Federal Government of Nigeria, 36 states and the 774 local councils in the country, shared an extra N46.6 billion in May; bring the total revenue shared to the three tiers of government to N462.4 billion.

In a statement on Thursday, in Abuja, at the monthly meeting of Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC), the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mr Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, said that the additional revenue came from National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) completed the refund of N450 billion to the federation account.

Isa-Dutse, who represented the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun at the meeting, said that NNPC completed the payment in April this year.

According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), it would be recall that apart from oil revenue, NNPC had for 67 consecutive months, paid additional N6.33 billion into the federation account to be shared among the three tiers of government.

The payment commenced in September 2011 after auditing of the accounts of the oil firm, showed that it had been under remitting to the federal government.

Adeosun said that the N462.4 billion was distributed under four distributable sub-heads.

“The distributable statutory revenue for the month is N317.6 billion. There is also a proposed distribution of N64.8 billion being the exchange rate differentials.

“Therefore, the total revenue distributable for the current month including VAT of N79.9 billion is N462.3 billion,” she said.

The minister said that the government generated N159.9 billion as revenue from minerals in May.

She said that the amount generated from minerals in the month of May was N17.7 billion less than the N177.7 billion generated in April.

She said that in May, non-mineral revenue increased by N61.1 billion, from N96.4 billion in April to N157.6 billion in May.

The minister said after deducting cost of collections to revenue generating agencies, the federal government got N147.7 billion; states, N74.9 billion while local government councils received N57.8 billion.

She said that N20.5 billion was given to oil producing states based on the 13 per cent derivation principle.

She said that the balance in the excess crude account currently stood at 2.3 billion dollars.

Adeosun said that oil revenue for the month of May declined as a result of the slight drop in average crude oil price from 55.38 dollars per barrel to 55.18 dollars per barrel.

“There was also a decrease in export volume by 1.023 million barrels, reducing oil revenue by about 57.12 million dollars.

“Crude oil production suffers due to leakages, sabotage, shut-its and shut-downs at terminals for maintenance and the Force Majeure declared at Forcados Terminal since February, 2016 subsisted.