Nigeria, April 21 -- The oil-rich Rivers State has recorded a more than 100 per cent jump in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), Governor Siminalayi Fubara has said.

Governor Fubara said this on Friday at a meeting with members of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Account in Port Harcourt," Boniface Onyedi, senior special assistant to Mr Fubara, told PREMIUM TIMES.

Mr Fubara, a former accountant general of the state who became governor in May 2023, said his administration has raised the monthly IGR of the state from N12 billion that he met on assumption of office to N27 billion, which amounts to an increase of over 100 per cent.

"So, we have to think outside the box, and rejig our internally generated revenue and I can t...