Nigeria: Akwa Ibom, Rivers Federal Allocations More Than 50 Percent of Ghana's Budget, Okonjo-Iweala Says

Many of these states' revenue allocations during the year dwarfed the budgets of most neighbouring countries like Liberia ($433 million).

Akwa Ibom and Rivers states received more than $3.1 billion as total federal revenue allocation in 2013, the Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said.

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