FAAC: FG, States, councils share N635.826bn for November

The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) on Wednesday shared N635.826 billion to the three tiers of government for the month of November 2019.

Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, who briefed the press after the meeting, said the N635.826 billion was the total of revenues from the statutory revenue, value-added tax (VAT), and exchange gain and forex equalisation.

The gross statutory revenue for the month of November 2019 was N491.875billion. It was lower than the N596.041 billion received in the previous month by N104.166 billion. Revenue from the Value Added Tax (VAT) was N 90.166 billion as against N 104.910 billion distributed in the preceding month, resulting in a decrease of N14.744 billion. Exchange Gain revenue was N0.785 billion and the Forex Equalisation yielded N53 billion.

A communique issued by the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) indicated that from the total revenue of N635.826 billion, the Federal Government received N267.883 billion, the States received N172.569 billion, and the Local Government Councils received N129.972 billion. The Oil Producing States received N49.124 billion as 13% derivation revenue and the Revenue Generating Agencies received N16.277 billion as cost of revenue collection.

Of the gross statutory revenue of N491.875 billion, Federal Government received N230.243 billion, the States received N116.782 billion, the Local Government Councils received N90.034 billion, the Oil Producing States received N42.144 billion as 13per cent derivation revenue and the Revenue Collecting Agencies received N12.671 billion as cost of revenue collection.

we will by then have the refinery, petrochemical and fertilizer all coming on stream, and also over a million tons of rice.

We will have about 600,000 tons of locally made sugar by that time and our cement will have gone further. And beginning from January next year, 8 million export the facility of our cement company to other African countries to generate foreign the exchange will commence operations,’’ he said.

Dangote disclosed that the firm was targeting to meet the nation’s forex needs through its huge investment by turning around the group’s entire $20 billion investment, which will further yield $30 billion in domestic revenue.