Nigeria · Statistic
FAAC allocation — number of Local Government Councils (LGCs) by state
Public Finance · Source: OAGF via NBS · monthly
International comparability — CSA: Economic · GFSM 2014 (IMF)Number of Local Government Councils (LGCs) per state as printed in the FAAC monthly disbursement Table III (a count, not a naira amount). Split out from the state naira-allocation series so the count is never treated as a monetary value.
Observations
722
Coverage
36 states + FCT
state
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A single variable over Nigerian states — a choropleth answers where it is high or low; the table below carries every exact value.
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Both downloads carry every observation — state, period, value, unit and source — and reconstruct the whole series.
Full historical data
Every published value — 20 periods across 36 states + FCT. The most recent periods are shown by default; expand the table for the full history, or use the downloads above for everything.
Showing the latest 5 of 20 periods. The downloads above carry every observation.
| Period | Abia | Adamawa | Akwa Ibom | Anambra | Bauchi | Bayelsa | Benue | Borno | Cross River | Delta | Ebonyi | Edo | Ekiti | Enugu | Gombe | Imo | Jigawa | Kaduna | Kano | Katsina | Kebbi | Kogi | Kwara | Lagos | Nasarawa | Niger | Ogun | Ondo | Osun | Oyo | Plateau | Rivers | Sokoto | Taraba | Yobe | Zamfara | Federal Capital Territory |
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| December 2025 | 17 | 21 | 31 | 21 | 20 | 8 | 23 | 27 | 18 | 25 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 44 | 34 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 30 | 33 | 17 | 23 | 23 | 16 | 17 | 14 | — |
| January 2026 | 17 | 21 | 31 | 21 | 20 | 8 | 23 | 27 | 18 | 25 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 44 | 34 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 30 | 33 | 17 | 23 | 23 | 16 | 17 | 14 | — |
| February 2026 | 17 | 21 | 31 | 21 | 20 | 8 | 23 | 27 | 18 | 25 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 44 | 34 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 30 | 33 | 17 | 23 | 23 | 16 | 17 | 14 | — |
| March 2026 | 17 | 21 | 31 | 21 | 20 | 8 | 23 | 27 | 18 | 25 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 44 | 34 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 30 | 33 | 17 | 23 | 23 | 16 | 17 | 14 | — |
| April 2026 | 17 | 21 | 31 | 21 | 20 | 8 | 23 | 27 | 18 | 25 | 13 | 18 | 16 | 17 | 11 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 44 | 34 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 20 | 13 | 25 | 20 | 18 | 30 | 33 | 17 | 23 | 23 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 6 |
Methodology and provenance
Where this data comes from and when Prism last updated it.
Source document
Last updated 6 August 2026
- Table III
FAAC Disbursement — Per-state x measure (Table III, State(s) Details) · Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), Federation Account Department
Publisher NBS; originator OAGF. Per-state Table III across 20 monthly vintages; melted one obs per cell. Mixed unit (NGN + count for No. of LGCs) -> dataset unit_id NULL, authoritative NGN on series; per-obs printed_unit carried.
Source and citation
This series is catalogued from public source tables. Prism names the table originator and the publication publisher — shown as one line when they are the same organisation. How this data is extracted and checked is set out in the methodology, and the full list of what Prism draws on is on the sources page.
- Originator
- Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF)
- Publisher
- National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)
- Publication
- Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) Disbursement
- Printed source caption
- Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), Federation Account Department
- Publication reference
- NGA-NBS-FAAC
- Catalog record
- Catalog 156
"FAAC allocation — number of Local Government Councils (LGCs) by state", OAGF via NBS, Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) Disbursement, ref. NGA-NBS-FAAC. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-pf-faac-lgc-count-nga.
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Source: OAGF via NBS. Source publication: Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) Disbursement. Publisher: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Catalogued by Prism.