Is Nigeria Committed to its own Financial Transparency Provisions?
The government has not kept up with efficient and timely publishing of financial statements to show how monies are spent in the country.
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Missing documents, deleted data, how inefficiency characterised Nigeria’s Open Treasury Portal
COVID-19 daily payment is missing on the FG’s Open Treasury Portal
Niger-Delta Ministry disregards Procurement Guidelines, disburses ₦2.5 billion in “nameless projects”
The Ministry of Niger-Delta, headed by Godswill Akpabio awarded contracts to companies that did not meet the basic requirements set out in Section 16 (6) of the Public Procurement Act, 2007;
Open Treasury: Payments worth ₦210.4bn Masked by President Buhari’s Administration
Government parastatals disbursed ₦2.48 trillion in ten months, according to details from the Open Treasury Portal. But eight percent of said transactions had no descriptions. Already experts had earlier noted nameless transactions to be reminiscent of corruption. So with ₦210.4 billion unaccounted for, how effective is President Buhari’s transparency campaign?