The Federal Government, states and local governments have shared N701 billion as revenue for the month of April. Details showed that N276.53 billion was allocated to Federal Government, N140.2 billion to states and N108.1 billion was allocated to local governments.
According to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Mahmoud Isa-Dutse the amounts shared were the outcome of Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting held today, Wednesday.
The Permanent Secretary, who briefed newsmen today, Wednesday, said that mineral revenue increased by N50.7 billion from N360.51 billion in March to N411.2 billion in April. He added that non-mineral revenue also increased by N81.25 billion, from N120 billion in March to N201.3 billion in April.
According to him, Value Added Tax (VAT) collected increased from N80.35 billion in March to N83.4 billion in April.
“Gross statutory revenue of N613 billion received for the month was higher than the N480.59 billion received in previous month by N132.45 billion.
“Crude oil sales volume increased by 64 per cent, compared with 7.72 million barrels from the previous month, resulting in increased revenue from the Federation Crude Oil Export Sales by 226.90 million dollars.
“Also, average crude oil price increased from 65.7 dollars to 66.78 dollars per barrel.
“Performance for the month in review would have been better but for a few production shut-ins and shut-downs at various terminals for repairs and maintenance.”
Isa-Dutse said that the federal, states and local government decided to save some of the month’s revenue for rainy day in view of the significant increase in revenues.
The permanent secretary said that N24.5 billion would be converted and added into the dollars denominated Excess Crude Account, adding: “based on increased revenue for the month and after due consultation, it has been decided that we will take out N24.5 billion and credit it into the Excess Crude Account.
“This brings the Excess Crude Oil Account balance to 1.11 billion dollars and the Excess Petroleum Profit Tax Account is 0.133 billion dollars.”
On the issue of reconciliation of accounts with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Isa-Dutse said it was ongoing.
He explained that reconciliation of monies collected by revenue generating agencies was also ongoing.
Nigeria is currently operating on a revenue allocation formula of; Federal Government — 52.68 per cent, State Governments — 26.72 per cent and Local Governments — 20.60 per cent.
Also, 13 per cent of the oil and gas federally collected revenue is given to oil producing states and communities as derivation revenue to compensate for ecological risks of oil production.
This formula was designed during the President Olusegun Obasanjo Administration.
However in 2015, the RMAFC saw the need to review the formula for balanced development of the country, hence it embarked on nationwide sensitisation tour to the 36 states of the federation to campaign for review.
