Alhaji Muhammadu Sunusi II, has advised state governments to try out new ways of generating revenue to enable them to be less dependent on the Federal Government.
Sunusi gave the advice when he received a team of economic experts from Lagos who paid him a courtesy visit at his Palace in Kano on Thursday.
The monarch said that evolving new areas of revenue generation by the states was necessary as the era of economic and financial dependence on Federal Government by states was over.
“The dependency of economic development of states on Federal government in this era of economic recession is no longer tenable.
“So states must develop their economic blueprint so as to enable them be economically buoyant and Independent, “ he said.
“Lagos is today a city state that has become one of the fastest economic growing states in the sub-Saharan Africa and collaborating with it would be a greatly beneficial to all.”
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