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Shagari1983· ₦10.51bn collected · ₦9.64bn spent· Chapter I · Money

Federal fiscal outturn, 1983

The federation collected ₦10.51bn — 69 per cent of it from oil — and the Federal Government spent ₦9.64bn, closing the year with a deficit of ₦3.36bn.

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These are actual outturns as later published by the Central Bank, not the figures announced in the budget speech.

• Total federally collected revenue: ₦10.51bn • Gross oil revenue: ₦7.25bn (69%) • Federal Government total expenditure: ₦9.64bn • Recurrent: ₦4.75bn · Capital: ₦4.89bn • Overall balance: −₦3.36bn

Why revenue and spending do not match simply: 'federally collected revenue' is everything that entered the Federation Account before it was shared with the states and councils, while 'expenditure' is only the Federal Government's own spending. From 1970 to 1985 recurrent spending excludes statutory transfers to the states; from 1992 to 1997 it includes extra-budgetary spending. Naira figures are nominal — the currency lost most of its value after 1986, so later years look larger than they were in real terms.

What it cost — political & economic reality

The political and economic reality

Nigeria in 1983: who was in charge, the cabinet of the day, the GDP, and the crises that defined the period.

President · Second Republic

Alhaji Shehu Shagari

1979–1983· NPN

National reality

First executive presidency. Oil-price crash from 1981 destroyed the boom. Ghana Must Go expulsion of West African migrants (1983). Disputed re-election in 1983, then the Buhari/Idiagbon coup on 31 December 1983.

Crises of the period

  • Oil price collapse 1981–83
  • Maitatsine riots Kano (1980)
  • Ghana Must Go (1983)
  • 31 December 1983 coup

GDP (World Bank)

$64 bn (1980, oil peak) → $30 bn (1983, bust)

Cabinet (selected portfolios)

  • Finance

    Sunday Essang → Onaolapo Soleye

  • Education

    Sylvester Ugoh; later others (being compiled)

Sources · Federal Gazette 1979–83 · CBN Annual Reports

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.