FG, States, LGs Share N619.857bn for February *FGN March bond auction oversubscribed

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The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) shared a total of
N619.857 billion to the three tiers of government for the month of
February as the monthly meeting of the Committee ended in Abuja on Wednesday.
This is coming as the FGN Bond Auction for March 2019 conducted by the
Debt Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday with N100 billion Bonds on offer was oversubscribed as was the case in January and February
2019.
A communique issued by FAAC  indicated that from the total distributive revenue of N619.857 billion, the federal government received N257.681 billion, states--N169.925, and  local government councils-N127.722 billion.
Oil producing states received N50.946 billion as 13 per cent
derivation revenue while the revenue generating agencies got  N13.582
billion as cost of revenue collection.
The total distributable revenue of N619.857 billion comprised revenue
from various sources, including distributable statutory revenue, Value
Added Tax (VAT), Exchange Gain Tax, Excess Bank Charges recovered and
Forex Equalisation.
The gross statutory revenue for February was N478.434 billion; VAT
revenue was N96.389 billion; Exchange Gain--N0.858 billion and Forex
Equalisation revenue --N44.176 billion.
The N478.434 billion gross statutory revenue for the reference  month
was lower than the N505.246 billion received the previous month by
N26.812 billion.
The gross revenue from VAT was N96.389 billion as against N104.468
billion distributed in the previous month, resulting in a decrease of
N8.079 billion.
From the total revenue from VAT, the federal government received
N13.880 billion, states received N46.267 billion, local government
Councils got  N32.387 billion while the revenue generating agencies
received N3.855 billion.
The communique stated that for the month of January 2019, the
federation crude oil sales increased by about 46 per cent, resulting
in increased federation revenue from $425.00 million previously to
$574.95 million.
The Excess Crude Account (ECA) as at March 27, 2019 stood at f $183 million.


Meanwhile, the FGN Bond Auction for March 2019 conducted by the Debt
Management Office (DMO) on Wednesday with N100 billion bonds on offer,
was oversubscribed  was the case in the January and February 2019.
The DMO offered three instruments at the Auction for 3, 7 and 10-year
tenors and  subscriptions for the three instruments was in excess of
N148 billion for competitive bids.
Non-competitive bids valued at N92.6 billion were also received,
taking the total  subscriptions across the 3 tenors to over N240.6
billion.

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