Nigeria States with highest internally generated revenues (See List)

A report by BudgIT Nigeria, a civic tech organisation, raising the standards of transparency, citizen engagement and accountability in public finance, has shown the top 10 states with the highest revenues in 2019.

The report tagged ‘State of States’, sourced its data in part from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

The states are least dependent on the federal allocation.

The top 10 states has “year-on-year most improved” internally generated revenues from the report:

1. Rivers (N27,618,370,390)
2. Lagos (N16,550,697,866)
3. Kaduna (N15,510,189,659)
4. Enugu (N8,923,529,697)
5. Akwa Ibom (N8,080,204,669)
6. Kwara (N7,599,787,113)
7. Osun (N7,540,730,845)
8. Zamfara (N7,209,347,808)
9. Anambra (N7,063,928,218)
10. Benue (N6,634,997,664)