The National Bureau of Statistics has released its final IGR report for the year ended December 2014. The report shows a total of N 707,857,998,395.47 was generated internally by states across the federation and is up 7% from the N662,045,725,237.28 generated in 2013.

This was also the slowest IGR growth recorded in the last 5 years and the first time we recorded single digit growth rate. Nevertheless, IGR is still 76% higher than the N401 billion generated in 2010. Nigerian States have now generated a total of N2.48 trillion in the last 5 years.

Lagos State led the IGR table with a total of N1 trillion and with Rivers State contributed about 50% of the total revenue generated by the States. Borno, Zamfara and Ekiti States reported the least total amount of IGR in the last five years with N11.7b, N12.5b, N13.6b generated respectively. Lagos State Generated N275 billion in 2014 and 39% of the total.

Lagos State

2014 Stats shows Lagos State generated about N153,608,849,584.33 from Personal Income Taxes. It also generated N9,392,939,866.44, N4,577,146,136.00, N108,585,043,089.18 Direct Assessments, Road Taxes , Other Revenue respectively.

States 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014  Total
 N’billion  N’billion  N’billion  N’billion  N’billion  N’billion
LAGOS            150            203            219            236            276       1,084
RIVERS              50              53              66              88              89           346
DELTA              26              35              46              50              43           199
EDO              11              15              19              19              17             80
ENUGU                 9                 7              12              20              19             68
AKWA IBOM              10              12              14              15              16             66
OYO              10                 9              15              15              16             66
ABIA              11              12              17              13              12             65
OGUN                 8              11              12              14              17             62
CROSS RIVER                 8                 9              13              12              16             58
KADUNA              12              10              12              11              13             57
KANO                 7                 7              11              17              14             55
KWARA                 7                 9              11              14              12             54
ONDO                 6                 8              10              10              12             47
BENUE                 7              11                 8                 8                 8             43
ANAMBRA                 8                 6                 8                 9              10             41
BAYELSA                 5                 4                 5              11              11             35
EBONYI                 2                 2                 8              10              11             34
IMO                 6                 6                 7                 8                 8             34
PLATEAU                 3                 5                 7                 8                 8             32
OSUN                 3                 7                 5                 7                 9             32
JIGAWA                 1                 1                 8              10                 6             27
KATSINA                 3                 4                 5                 7                 6             25
SOKOTO                 4                 4                 4                 6                 6             24
ADAMAWA                 4                 4                 5                 4                 5             22
BAUCHI                 3                 4                 4                 5                 5             22
KEBBI                 4                 4                 5                 4                 4             21
NIGER                 3                 4                 4                 4                 6             21
KOGI                 2                 3                 3                 5                 7             20
GOMBE                 3                 3                 4                 4                 5             19
NASARAWA                 2                 4                 4                 4                 4             18
YOBE                 6                 2                 2                 3                 3             16
TARABA                 1                 3                 3                 3                 4             15
EKITI                 2                 2                 4                 2                 3             14
ZAMFARA                 2                 2                 3                 3                 3             13
BORNO                 2                 2                 2                 2                 3             12
Total            401            487            584            662            708       2,843