Oyedele urges states to use revenue windfall to deepen human development
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Summary: BudgIT’s new report revealed that twenty states now depend on federal allocations for at least 70 per cent of their revenues, implying that more states are currently at the mercy of the revenue shared from the centre for survival than the previous year.
The chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has enjoined state governments to channel their growing revenues towards development in education, healthcare, and infrastructure to ensure shared prosperity among citizens.
Mr Oyedele said on Tuesday at the launch of BudgIT’s State of States 2025 Report in Abuja that states are getting more allocations from the centre than ever before, but cit
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