Senate Slams NNPCL for Rejecting N210trn Audit Investigation   The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) on Thursday failed to appear before the Senate Committee on Public Accounts probing alleged financial discrepancies amounting to over N210tn in its audited reports from 2017 to 2023. Despite being summoned,...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) is urging President Bola Tinubu to “direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, as well as the appropriate anti-corruption agencies to immediately and thoroughly investigate the spending of $1.5 billion World Bank loan that was obtained by the 36 states and Abuja for poverty reduction and social protection across the states.” 

The Action for Economic Development (AED), a civil society group, has stated that the 387 suspects arrested for involvement in illegal mining in the country as confirmed by the Chief of Defence Staff at a meeting with the House Committee on Solid Mineral on Monday must be through investigated.

The House of Representatives has begun investigation of the non-remittance of billions of naira by the federal, state and local governments into the Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) from 2010 to date. The House said it would set up an ad hoc panel to...