Hammefeez:
Uptill now, the issue of states in southwest,
perticularly Oyo and Osun still bothering me and why they are owning their workers,
in getting solution to that I got this article that will interest you.

Its a fact surrounding the current issues in southwest and other states. Facts...

Federal Allocation - Does The South-West Deserve this?

As released by the Federal Ministry of Finance, the total allocation to all the South-West states, namely, Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti and Ogun for January this year and shared in February was N15.1
billion, while Akwa Ibom State alone with a population less than 3 million people got N13.9 billion! “For the same period. Bayelsa State, at arguably 2 million people, got N10 billion
and Rivers State got N10.3 billion. Between Kano and Jigawa states, which used to be
one state like Lagos State, they got N7 billion. Lagos State only got N3.4 billion.
“If you remove Ekiti State with the lowest allocation of just N2.3 billion, Akwa Ibom State alone gets more allocation than the
rest of the South-West states put together including Lagos. And guess what? Hundreds of thousands of Akwa Ibom State citizens are in Lagos State enjoying the state’s free
education”. “If you multiply the total allocation to the South-
West states at N15 billion per month by 12, you have N180 billion per year! This is less
than 30% of what the FG make from the Lagos Seaports alone, don’t even talk about VAT that Lagos contributes over 60% of the
total accrual to the FG.

“Yet some morons will tell me we live on Niger Delta oil.”
“Now, my State Governor can’t pay his workers because of this systemic injustice.
It is better we start the implementation of regional based fiscal federalism now.

Brilliant!!

AlfaSeltzer:
shut up or declare your odua republic
lazy cowards

These guys too like free money

whitecat1:
Hmm! Lagos puts in more than it gets!

This is the reason why SE that is less than the size of Oyo state wants more empty states and the rest of the country will be dumb to grant that!

Go tell ur father to teach u how to reason. What is ur problem with the south east

osemwengie1:
. I guess you should say all the Amala people employed by the oil companies in Akwa Ibom state should return to Lagos.

Is Lagos a Yoruba state in the first place.

lol oh my God!! this one loud oohh?

Hammefeez:
Uptill now, the issue of states in southwest,
perticularly Oyo and Osun still bothering me and why they are owning their workers,
in getting solution to that I got this article that will interest you.

Its a fact surrounding the current issues in southwest and other states. Facts...

Federal Allocation - Does The South-West Deserve this?

As released by the Federal Ministry of Finance, the total allocation to all the South-West states, namely, Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti and Ogun for January this year and shared in February was N15.1
billion, while Akwa Ibom State alone with a population less than 3 million people got N13.9 billion! “For the same period. Bayelsa State, at arguably 2 million people, got N10 billion
and Rivers State got N10.3 billion. Between Kano and Jigawa states, which used to be
one state like Lagos State, they got N7 billion. Lagos State only got N3.4 billion.
“If you remove Ekiti State with the lowest allocation of just N2.3 billion, Akwa Ibom State alone gets more allocation than the
rest of the South-West states put together including Lagos. And guess what? Hundreds of thousands of Akwa Ibom State citizens are in Lagos State enjoying the state’s free
education”. “If you multiply the total allocation to the South-
West states at N15 billion per month by 12, you have N180 billion per year! This is less
than 30% of what the FG make from the Lagos Seaports alone, don’t even talk about VAT that Lagos contributes over 60% of the
total accrual to the FG.

“Yet some morons will tell me we live on Niger Delta oil.”
“Now, my State Governor can’t pay his workers because of this systemic injustice.
It is better we start the implementation of regional based fiscal federalism now.

@Op how much is states like Osun, Ekiti, Oyo contributing? you don't expect oil producing states to receive less than other states that have no oil, crude oil is Nigerian major source of foreign exchange, Nigeria economy revolves around oil, when the price of oil increases the economy improves, when it drops the reverse becomes the case and those oil rich states suffer environmental degradation as a result oil exploration. Federal government should establish sea ports in other riverine states to reduce this noise about Lagos, even someone from kwara state will come online and start crying about Lagos State allocation.

chinchum:
Intelligence is not your strength. Population puts wear /tear on infrastructures (roads,schools,hospitals,markets e.t.c) waste management/disposal, increase traffic issues e.t.c, especially when the bulk of the population is not taxable.
How many chukwudis in Lagos pay tax?

Every Chukwudi in Lagos pay tax. you are not aware that those hawkers you see along the roads in Lagos pay tax, I am certain you don't even pay tax.

jmoore:
I think states should be in control of their resources.
Akwaibom should have a higher budget if she controls more than 90% of its oil.

When companies experience fall in profits they reduce their workforce. The civil service of most states if not all is over populated. Reduce the workforce. I wonder what all the advisers to these governors are doing.

Population or not, states should stop sucking the breast of the Federal Government . Stop waiting to be spoonfed.

civil service is not that populated, our problem is our state governors and their handlers, their pockets are so deep that the allocation that comes to the states are used to service or charter private jets. some of them are building world class universities and hotels abroad whereas those that voted them in are suffering. If you ask Kogi state governor what he did with the allocation he received for almost 48 Months, he will tell you that the money was used to secure the state (some governors take 30% of the allocation as security vote) .