Nigeria: Confronting our demons
Many analysts argue ad nauseam, that before the 1966 coup in Nigeria, the true practice of federalism was responsible for the great achievements of the Northern, Eastern, and Western regions of the country.
Yet, many of our states today are unable to generate enough self-sustaining internal revenue. So, what matters may not be whether a state is governed as a single entity or under federalism. It may be true that Nigeria cannot survive its present state of a ‘dysfunctional’ federation, but any resultant adversity will not be because we are more unitary than federal. It will be because of bad governance epitomised by some governors who cannot even pay salaries.
If the Nigerian Civil War provided a win-the-war opportunity to dice up the country into 12 dependent states, in order to isolate the core Igbo part of Biafra, COVID-19, the second most impactful event in Nigeria’s post-colonial history, offers a second opportunity to drop those states that have failed.
Last month alone, states received N86.14 billion, while local governments received N66.411 billion. According to, the total disbursement was N606.196 billion, “…down N174 billion from the N780.926 billion disbursed in April from the revenue generated in March and N581.566 billion in March as revenue generated in February.” Add to this the huge debt the states are piling on the necks of their citizens.
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