The Federation Account alAllocation Committee (FAAC) said it shared N1.65 trillion among the three tiers of government as allocation for May 2025.
This represents a decrease of N30 billion, compared to the N1.68 trillion shared in April.
According to a statement on Wednesday from the Ministry of Finance Incorporated, the figure was confirmed in a communique issued at the end of FAAC’s June 2025 meeting.
In a statement, the Ministry’s Director of Information and Public Relations, Mohammed Manga said that the meeting was chaired by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Chief Wale Edun.
The ministry said that the revenue distributable was drawn from a gross revenue of N2.94 trillion.
According to the communique, the revenue distributable for May comprises a statutory revenue of N863.89 billion, Value Added Tax (VAT) of N691.71 billion, Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL) of N27.66 billion, and N76.61 billion from exchange difference — bringing the total distributable amount for the month to N1.65 trillion.
From the distributable amount, the FAAC said the Federal Government received N538 billion, the states got N577.84 billion, the local governments had N419.96 billion, while oil-producing states received N124.07 billion as derivation (13% of mineral revenue).
The communique said that N111.90 billion was given for the cost of collection, while N1.17 trillion was allocated for transfers intervention and refunds.
The committee also said the gross revenue available from the VAT in May, was N742.82 billion as against N642.26 billion distributed in the preceeding month, resulting in an increase of N100.56 billion.
‘From that amount, the sum of N29.71 billion was allocated for the cost of collection and the sum of N21.39 billion given for Transfers, Intervention and Refunds’, the statement reads.
From the remaining N691.71 billion, FAAC said that the Federal Government got N103.75 billion, states received N345.85 billion and the Local Government Councils were given N242.10 billion.
The Ministry further said: ‘Accordingly, the Gross Statutory Revenue of N2.09 trillion received for the month was higher than the sum of N2.08 trillion received in the previous month by N10.02 billion’, the ministry said.
‘From the stated amount, the sum of N81.042 billion was allocated for the cost of collection and a total sum of N1.149 trillion for Transfers, Intervention and Refunds.
‘For the remaining balance of N863.89 billion, the Federal Government got the sum of N393.51 billion, states received N199.59 billion, while N153.88 billion was allocated to local governments and N116.89 billion was given to derivation revenue (13 percent mineral producing states)’.
The Ministry said the N28.82 EMTL revenue was shared with the federal government (N4.15 billion), states (N13.83 billion), and local governments (N9.68 billion), while N1.15 billion was allocated for cost of collection.
The communique added that from the N76.61 billion exchange difference revenue, the federal government got N36.57 billion, the state received N18.55 billion, local governments got N14.30 billion, while oil-producing states received N7.17 billion.
The FAAC noted that Company Income Tax, VAT, and import duty increased significantly.
In addition, the committee said Petroleum Profit Tax, CET levies, oil and gas royalty, and EMTL recorded decreases, while excise duty increased only marginally.
