by Ywriter
The Federal Government, States and Local Government Councils have shared a total of N429.127 billion federal revenue generated for the month of February 2017. The N429.127 billion was lower than the N465.149 shared in January by N36.022 billion.
A communiqué read by the Chairman of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, showed that the gross statutory revenue of N290.163 billion was received in February 2017. This was lower than the N324.990 received in January 2017 by N34.827.
The distributable statutory revenue for the month was N258.692billion. The sum of N6.330 billion was refunded by NNPC and N60.899 billion was available from the Excess PPT Account. There was also the exchange gain of N40.329 billion. These, together with the revenue from the Value Added Tax, made up the total distributable revenue for the month.
She announced that from the distributable statutory revenue of N258.692, statutory deductions were made to the FIRS, NCS and DPR, resulting in net statutory revenue of the N246.390 billion. From this amount, the federal government got N117.581 billion (52.68%) against the N133.192 billion it got in January. The States got N59.639 billion (26.72%) as against N67.557 billion they got in the previous month and the Local governments got N45.979 billion (20.60%) as against N52.083 billion in the previous month. The oil producing states got N23.191billion as 13% derivation revenue as against N20.620 billion they got in January.