From Isaac Anumihe, Abuja

THE 36 states and the 774 local governments in the country have so far shared a total sum of N2.8 trillion from the federation account in the one year of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ad­ministration.

According to a report by the Economic Confidential magazine, the amount was payment made to the two tiers of government be­tween June 2015 and May 2016 at the monthly meet­ing of the Federation Ac­count Allocation Commit­tee (FAAC)..

In the report, Lagos State is ranked the highest re­cipient with N178 billion in the twelve months. It is followed by Akwa Ibom State, N173 billion; Delta State, N144 billion and Kano State N117 billion. The five states got a quarter (25 per cent) of the total allocation for the states and local gov­ernments within the pe­riod.

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Also, Bayelsa State got N95 billion; followed by Kat­sina State, N88 billion; Oyo State, N84 billion; Kaduna State, N83 billion and Borno State, N78 billion.

The lowest recipients are Gombe and Ebonyi states that got N49 billion each, followed by Ekiti and Nasar­awa states, N50billion each and Kwara, N52 billion.

The report further dis­closed that Edo and Ondo states which are oil-produc­ing states got N66 billion and N71 billion respectively, while another state in the South-South, Cross River State, received N59 billion.

The Economic Confiden­tial gathered that factors that influence the allocation include population, deri­vation, landmass, terrain, revenue effort, school en­rolments, health facilities, water supply and equality of the beneficiaries.