•Nigerian Senate The Nigerian Senate today reprimanded heads of federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies for persistent late arrival at budget defence sessions, warning that the upper chamber would no longer tolerate what it described as a growing culture of disrespect for parliamentary oversight. The rebuke came during the 2026 budget def...
•Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has directed Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to ensure they obtain warrants and Authority to Incur Expenditure before committing to any financial obligations or signing contracts. He...
•Accountant-General of the Federation, Shamseldeen Ogunjimi The federal government may extend the 2025 budget into 2026, as slow capital project implementation, procurement delays, and a shutdown of the cash-planning portal have left many projects stalled about eight months into the fiscal year. The possibility of a rollover came to light at a...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has revealed that only 84 Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) of the federal government currently operate active Anti-Corruption and Transparency Units (ACTUs), while 92 MDAs are yet to establish any. This was disclosed in a report presented by the Commissi...
•Nigerian Senate In a decisive move against persistent defiance by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) of the federal government, the Senate has announced a tough crackdown on institutions that continue to ignore legislative summons, warning of immediate sanctions and sweeping repercussions. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public ...
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) says it has identified some ministries and agencies in Nigeria that engage in job racketeering and promises to take necessary actions against them in the coming days. The commission’s chairman Musa Aliyu made this disclosure while speaking during a high-level semina...
•Hamzat Lawal Anti-corruption activist and founder of Connected Development, Hamzat Lawal, said that Nigeria is seriously dealing with contract fraud among Ministries, Departments, and Agencies in Nigeria (MDAs). This is in light of a report made by the Auditor-General of Nigeria Shaakaa Kanyitor Chira on November 24th, exposing irregularity p...
•NNPCL boss, Mele Kyari A report from the Centre for Fiscal Transparency and Public Integrity (CeFTPI) has ranked 510 ministries, departments and agencies of government low in transparency and integrity. The report, which was released yesterday in Abuja tagged “Transparency and Integrity Index 2024” assessed 514 different MDAs out of which onl...
The federal government through the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation has mandated all FG-owned Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to remit five percent retention fees deducted from contractors’ payments at the Central Bank of Nigeria. A memo signed by the Accountant General of the Federation, OluwaToyin Madein, tagged OAGF/...
The Nigerian Government released ₦1.23tn to 17 ministries for the execution of capital projects in the third quarter of 2023. According to the Budget Implementation Report for Q3, 2023 released by the Budget Office yesterday, 75.4 per cent lower than the ₦5trn allocated for capital expenditure in the 2023 budget, resulted in a deficit of [&hel...
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