Nigeria: Revenue Formula Unfair to North - Governor Aliyu

24 February 2012

Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, has said that the federal revenue formula should be reviewed in 2012 as it is presently unfavourable to the northern part of the country.

Aliyu, who made this remark yesterday while inaugurating an advisory council for the Ahmadu Bello Memorial Foundation, said that, in addition to the 13 per cent derivation, there are oil wells off the shores of the country which should belong to the federal government but have been given to the contiguous state in the Niger Delta.

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