Nigeria's distributable government revenues rose to in May from 415.7 billion naira in April due to higher proceeds from corporate taxes, a government statement said during the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting on Thursday.
The bonus came as the National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) completed the refund of N450 billion to the federation account. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mr Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, made the statement on Thursday in Abuja at the monthly meeting of FAAC.
Isa-Dutse, who represented the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun at the meeting, said that NNPC completed the payment in April this year. Adeosun said that the N462.4 billion was distributed under four distributable sub-heads.
“The distributable statutory revenue for the month is N317.6 billion. There is also a proposed distribution of N64.8 billion being the exchange rate differentials. Therefore, the total revenue distributable for the current month including VAT of N79.9 billion is N462.3 billion,” she said.
The minister said that the government generated N159.9 billion as revenue from minerals in May. She said that the amount generated from minerals in the month of May was N17.7 billion less than the N177.7 billion generated in April.
She said that in May, non-mineral revenue increased by N61.1 billion, from N96.4 billion in April to N157.6 billion in May. The minister said after deducting cost of collections to revenue generating agencies, the federal government got N147.7 billion; states, N74.9 billion while local government councils received N57.8 billion.
She said that N20.5 billion was given to oil producing states based on the 13 per cent derivation principle. She said that the balance in the excess crude account currently stood at 2.3 billion dollars.
Adeosun said that oil revenue for the month of May declined as a result of the slight drop in average crude oil price from 55.38 dollars per barrel to 55.18 dollars per barrel. There was also a decrease in export volume by 1.023 million barrels, reducing oil revenue by about 57.12 million dollars.
Crude oil production suffers due to leakages, sabotage, shut-its and shut-downs at terminals for maintenance and the Force Majeure declared at Forcados Terminal since February, 2016 subsisted
