TY - BOOK ID - 134537941 TI - Federal presence in Nigeria : the 'sung' and 'unsung' basis for ethnic grievance AU - Egwaikhide, Festus O. AU - Isumonah, Victor A. AU - Ayodele, Olumide S. PY - 2009 SN - 1282901354 9786612901355 2869783965 2869783523 2869782969 PB - Dakar, Senegal : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, DB - UniCat KW - Revenue sharing KW - Nigeria KW - Economic conditions. KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134537941 AB - 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 ER -