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Our federating units will keep 50% of all the revenue that they generate, put a further 20% into a central pot called the Excess Federation Account to which everyone can have access as the need arises, 10% will go into a geo-political zone account and the remaining 20% will go to into the Federation Account used to run the federal government.
Share A group, Benin Solidarity Movement (BSM) worldwide, has challenged a pan-Ijaw group, Izon Ibe Dragnet, over the renaming of Gelegele to Gelegelegbene in Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State. A statement by the president of BSM, Curtis Eghosa Ugbo, insisted that the Benin name for the community which is in Benin Kingdom under the domain of the Oba of Benin, Omo N’Oba Ewuare ll, is Gelegele and not Gbene as being peddled by Ijaw elements in the riverside community. Ugbo said the Ijaw people should realise that they are settlers in Benin Kingdom, noting that the Benin peopl...