The Economic Confidential magazine provides here the distribution of a total sum of 783 billion being the statutory and VAT allocations shared to all tiers of government at the December 2011’s meeting of the monthly Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC). The allocation is different from anther of N143.6bn from the Excess Crude account in the same month. The total statutory disbursement of nets after deductions, the highest recipients are from the oil producing states with Akwa Ibom receiving N17bn, Rivers N16.4bn, Delta 14bn, and Bayelsa N9.3bn. The highest recipients from non-oil –producing states are Lagos N13.8bn and Kano N10.2bn.

Thousands of Ogonis joined by several Civil Society and Human rights groups took to the streets of Port Harcourt on November 10 2011 to protest against another attempt by the Rivers State Government of Nigeria to dispossess over 3000 peasant farmers in Ogoni of their farm lands. Read full Report

Over 700 families in Ogoniland are angry with the Rivers State government over what they allege was a forceful land acquisition by the state Ministry of Agriculture.

Consequently, the families, under the Ogoni Solidarity Forum and Ogoni Civil Society Platform have joined forces with two non-governmental organisations - the Social and Economic Rights Action Centre (SERAC) and Social Action (SA) - to show their displeasure and concern over what they described as the “grave human rights and due process breaches” by the Rivers State government.