Author: Shu'aibu Usman Leman

I HAVE long maintained the firm conviction that the perennial crisis of public finance across the vast landscape of Northern Nigeria has never truly been a result of an inherent lack of wealth or resources. Rather, it is the chronic absence of robust institutional systems, fiscal discipline, and the unwavering political will to do what is necessary. This is precisely why Gombe State’s extraordinary trajectory in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) resonates so deeply with me on a personal level. It serves as a definitive validation of an argument many of us have championed for decades, that the era of absolute,…