Federal Presence in Nigeria: The ‘Sung’ and ‘Unsung’ Basis for Ethnic Grievance

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Festus Oisawereme Egwaikhide
Victor Adefemi Isumonah
Olumide S. Ayodele
Olumide S. Ayodele
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CODESRIA,2009, 116 p., ISBN : 978-2-86978-259-4

Minorities of the oil-producing states are seriously disturbed by the inequity that is apparent from the existing principles of revenue allocation in Nigeria. In taking issues with them and other southern advocates of new revenue allocation criteria, the dominant north’s organic intellectuals have always relied on the obvious concentration of economic and commercial activities in southern Nigeria to refute the argument that the north is the greater beneficiary of Nigeria’s wealth. Scholarly contribution to the ethno-regional debate on the equity of resource allocation has been anchored to the same popular platform, namely, the criteria for inter-governmental revenue allocation. It is as if they absolutely embody the revelation about equity or inequity of resource allocation in Nigeria where the federal government has retained between 48.5 per cent and 56 per cent of the federation account, let alone revenues unpaid into this account. This study marks a departure from the orthodox focus on Nigeria’s ethnic problems, including the contentious demand of the southern minorities for an increase in the weight assigned the principle of derivation, by examining federal expenditures to determine the distribution of federal presence, and thus winners and losers, bearing in mind that the entire country is federal government’s coverage.

 

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Festus Oisawereme Egwaikhide

is a Professor of Economics at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he also got his doctorate. He was previously at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, where he rose to the position of Senior Research Fellow. His teaching and research interests straddle Macroeconomics, International Economics, Public Finance and Fiscal Federalism. Egwaikhide’s articles have appeared in scholarly journals in these fields of economics.

Victor Adefemi Isumonah

is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was the 2005/2006 Bank of Ireland Nelson Mandela Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland. He was also a Senior Research Fellow and Acting Director of Research, Centre for Advanced Social Science (CASS) Port Harcourt, Nigeria (2004-2005). His main research interests are Federalism, Political Economy, Democracy, Governance, Civil Society, Ethnicity and Minority Rights. His articles on these subjects have appeared in scholarly journals.

Olumide S. Ayodele

 is a Macroeconomist at the Policy Analysis and Research Project of the Nigerian National Assembly, Abuja. With a doctorate in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and over 20 years experience in the academia, he has published in many reputable journals. He has also participated in several local and international conferences, workshops, seminars and research funded by international organisations such as the AERC, CODESRIA and the EU

Olumide S. Ayodele

 is a Macroeconomist at the Policy Analysis and Research Project of the Nigerian National Assembly, Abuja. With a doctorate in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and over 20 years experience in the academia, he has published in many reputable journals. He has also participated in several local and international conferences, workshops, seminars and research funded by international organisations such as the AERC, CODESRIA and the EU

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