INTERNALLY GENERATED REVENUE CATEGORIES IN STATES

Corruption Gravity Index

An estimate of $4 billion to $8 billion is unaccounted for out of the Nigerian state coffers every year, World Bank asserted that the country parades among the top five poorest countries of the worldas more than two-third of her citizenry wallow in the quagmire of poverty. This investigation presents a research to measure the corruption gravity indices among the Thirty-Six Nigerian states between 2011 and 2013.

INTERNALLY GENERATED REVENUE CATEGORIES IN STATES

REVENUE CATEGORY (N)	CATEGORY POINTS
1Billion –3Billion	1
4Billion – 9Billion	2
10Billion –18Billion	3
19Billion – 30Billion	4
31Billion – 45Billion	5
46Billion – 63Billion	6
64Billion – 84Billion	7
85Billion – 118Billion	8
119Billion – 145Billion	9
146Billion & Above	10

#	STATES	POVERTY RATE(%)	FISCAL SATURATION	CORRUPTION GRAVITY INDEX
1	LAGOS	48.6	51.4	9.72
2	DELTA	63.3	36.7	9.5
3	RIVERS	50.4	49.6	7.06
4	EBONYI	73.6	26.4	5.55
5	EDO	65.6	34.4	4.92
6	ENUGU	62.5	37.5	4.69
7	OGUN	62.3	37.7	4.67
8	KADUNA	61.5	38.5	4.61
9	SOKOTO	81.2	18.8	4.06
10	KATSINA	74.5	25.5	3.73
11	ADAMAWA	74.2	25.8	3.71
12	GOMBE	74.2	25.8	3.71
13	BAUCHI	73.0	27.0	3.65
14	KEBBI	72.0	28.0	3.60
15	PLATEAU	71.4	28.6	3.57
16	TARABA	68.9	31.1	3.45
17	BENUE	67.1	32.9	3.36
18	KOGI	67.1	32.9	3.36
19	KANO	65.6	34.4	3.28
20	AKWA-IBOM	53.7	46.3	3.22
21	CROSSRIVER	52.9	47.1	3.18
22	OYO	51.8	48.2	3.11
23	KWARA	61.8	38.2	3.09
24	NASARAWA	60.4	39.6	3.02
25	ONDO	45.7	54.3	2.74
26	ABIA	57.4	42.6	2.36
27	ANAMBRA	56.8	43.2	2.27
28	EKITI	52.4	47.6	2.10
29	IMO	50.5	49.5	2.02
30	BAYELSA	57.0	43.0	1.88
31	YOBE	73.8	26.2	1.85
32	JIGAWA	74.1	25.9	1.85
33	ZAMFARA	70.8	29.2	1.77
34	OSUN	37.9	62.1	1.26
35	NIGER	33.8	66.2	1.13
36	BORNU	55.1	44.9	1.11

As computed above, Lagos, Delta, Rivers among other states were categorized as very corrupt, which is evident in the values of their respective indices, and this explains the case with Lagos that rakes in more than a billion dollar annually yet, over half of its population lives in abject poverty, in similar vein Delta and Rivers are high net states with low fiscal saturation.
Borno, Niger and Osun were ranked among the least corrupt, as evident from the low values of their respective indiceswith a paltry inflow from domestic revenue,while committed to maintaining a poverty profile, posesbetter than the top twenty earning states with exception of Lagos and Rivers.