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An accusation that every governor in Nigeria is misappropriating local government allocations has thrust the country’s stalled fiscal autonomy reform back into public debate, after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Ogun State, Oladipupo Adebutu, told traditional rulers in Abeokuta that the diversion of council money cuts across party lines. Adebutu made…
The N2.550 trillion that landed in the coffers of Nigeria’s three tiers of government for June carries a headline that is easy to read and a subplot that is far more consequential. The distributable sum, shared at the July meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) in Abuja, marks the highest monthly payout…
The NNPC Limited has remitted N19.5 trillion to the Federation Account over fourteen months following a series of structural operational overhauls. Bayo Ojulari, the group chief executive officer, announced the figures during an energy conference in Abuja. The state-backed energy firm also clawed back $3.4 billion in expenses through aggressive contract restructuring and procurement adjustments….
Higher crude flows failed to lift the bottom line for the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited in May 2026, as the state oil firm recorded a profit after tax of N462 billion, down from the N481 billion posted in April, despite pumping its most crude in nearly a year. The company’s Monthly Report Summary…
Former Delta State governor Ifeanyi Okowa has moved to retrieve his international passport from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, seeking to travel abroad for medical treatment even as the agency presses on with its investigation into the alleged diversion of N1.3 trillion in state funds. Sources within the anti-graft agency said the former…
The Senate Committee on Public Accounts has rejected the financial explanations provided by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) regarding ₦210 trillion in unaccounted funds. Committee Chairman Aliyu Wadada announced on Sunday Politics that the current leadership, led by Group CEO Bayo Ojulari, failed to substantiate two massive entries in the company’s 2017–2023 audited…
Legal experts and stakeholders are weighing in on President Bola Tinubu’s recent executive order that halts revenue deductions by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other agencies, highlighting tensions between presidential authority and legislative supremacy under Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution. The directive, aimed at curbing what the administration views as excessive deductions from oil…
