The controversy playing out in Nigeria over Governor Nyesom Wike's new value-added tax (VAT) law in Rivers State is not so much about the expected earnings from the tax, but rather about how other states will respond. The law has brought back the debate about restructuring in Nigeria and some see it as a wake-up call for states to become more independent of Abuja.
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State in southern Nigeria recently took a step that might just change the status quo in Africa’s most populous country.

He signed a law allowing the administration of VAT following a court judgement that ruled that the state – not the Nigerian government – should collect such tax. The matter is still playing out in the court where the government-led Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has filed an appeal.

But this is not just an arcane move about a complicated tax procedure. It touches on a volcanic argument: who runs Nigeria, the centre or the states? How should Nigeria’s wealth be shared? And more obliquely, whether the South should subsidise the North; a complex of issues known in Nigeria shorthand as ‘restructuring’.

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I hope this flies.
If it does, it means the ambiguous term "Restructuring" has started bit by bit.

Rugged rivers.

I checked the figures and it seems that Oyo State generates more in VAT than it receives in federal allocations, Lagos and Ogun State generate VAT way above their monthly allocation from FG.

How much is this one?

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