Introduction -- Ethno-regional competition for resources in Nigeria -- Fiscal history -- Educational facilities and their beneficiaries -- Federal public service as a cake to be shared -- The distribution of health benefits -- Federal expenditure on roads, housing and erosion control -- Conclusion
Summary
Minorities of the oil-producing states are seriously disturbed by the inequity that is apparent from the existing principles of revenue allocation in Nigeria. In taking issues with them and other southern advocates of new revenue allocation criteria, the dominant north's organic intellectuals have always relied on the obvious concentration of economic and commercial activities in southern Nigeria to refute the argument that the north is the greater beneficiary of Nigeria's wealth. Scholarly contribution to the ethno-regional debate on the equity of resource allocation has been anchored to the
