Half 13 information the Auditor-Normal’s 13 observations on NiDCOM’s 2023 accounts as reported, the sums connected to them in reporting, the three solutions NiDCOM gave in September 2026, and the information request a London-registered group made and was partly refused.
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“13 audit questions. No response. Then three solutions nobody has seen.”
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On July 17, 2026, Nigeria’s Auditor-Normal despatched the Nationwide Meeting a report with 13 observations on her fee’s 2023 spending. Experiences put the questioned funds above ₦1.3 billion, together with about ₦209 million for diaspora occasions with out satisfactory proof of supply. Towards every commentary, the fee’s response was recorded as “No response.” In September it mentioned, in three statements over eighteen days, that its information are intact and that it has now answered in full. None of these solutions is public. A London group requested for the information and was partly refused. Observations are questions, and none is a discovering.
IIIThe Legislation Saysthe controlling textual content, phrase for phrase
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“The Auditor-Normal shall, inside ninety days of receipt of the Accountant-Normal’s monetary assertion, submit his stories underneath this part to every Home of the Nationwide Meeting and every Home shall trigger the stories to be thought of by a committee of the Home of the Nationwide Meeting chargeable for public accounts.”
Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), s. 85(5). Exhibit A-2.
The availability sends the auditor’s observations to the general public accounts committees of each Homes. Half 13 information what the report mentioned of NiDCOM and what has adopted.
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Audit observations on NiDCOM
₦1.3bn+
Questioned, as reported
July 17, 2026
Report reached the Meeting
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NiDCOM solutions in 18 days
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On July 17, 2026, the Auditor-Normal for the Federation, Shaakaa Kanyitor Chira, transmitted to the Nationwide Meeting his annual report on non-compliance and inside management weaknesses for the 12 months ended December 31, 2024 (Clement, 2026; Voice of Nigeria, 2026b; Displays B-46, B-48). Quantity I of that report, underneath the Worldwide Audit and Liaison Division, carries 13 observations on NiDCOM’s 2023 accounts (Ogunaike, 2026; Exhibit B-45). The infractions it recognized throughout businesses had been referred to the Nationwide Meeting’s Public Accounts Committees (Clement, 2026; Exhibit B-48). The report’s textual content was not obtained for this file (Exhibit D-14).Reported
Part 85 of the Structure units the trail. Public accounts are audited and reported on to the Auditor-Normal, who has entry to each e-book and document referring to them, and every Home of the Nationwide Meeting should trigger his stories to be thought of by its committee on public accounts (Structure, 1999, s. 85(2), (5); Exhibit A-2). The observations on NiDCOM due to this fact sit with two committees by constitutional command, and the query this half information is what all sides has executed since.Documented; Inference in remaining sentence
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What the Auditor Recorded
Based on the stories, the observations start with the failure to submit 2023 audited monetary statements and run by procurement: emergency purchases with out the required certification, contract splitting to keep away from approval thresholds, contracts awarded to corporations with invalid or expired paperwork, and doubts about some contractors’ monetary capability (Ogunaike, 2026; Voice of Nigeria, 2026b; Displays B-45, B-46). Funds make up the remainder. The stories checklist funds for diaspora occasions with out proof of execution, overpayments to contractors, breaches of tax deduction and federal e-payment guidelines, motion of funds between expenditure heads and money advances above statutory limits. 5 automobiles recorded within the books weren’t sighted at bodily verification (Ogunaike, 2026; Exhibit B-45). Towards every of the 13, NIDO Worldwide’s assertion information administration’s response as “No response,” and an opinion column on TVC Information stories the identical entry (Ogunaike, 2026; TVC Information, 2026; Displays B-45, B-51).Reported
Each day Belief reported the questioned transactions as totaling over ₦1.3 billion (Odeyemi, 2026; Exhibit B-44). International Integrity Watch, which says its evaluation lined the report’s 2023 audit interval, put the combination at about ₦1.409 billion and described the determine as the worth of the transactions questioned, and no measure of loss (The Authority, 2026; Exhibit B-50).Reported
One secondary report itemized the sums with out naming the audit doc (Dickson, 2026; Exhibit B-49). By its account, ₦209.09 million went on flights, lodging and logistics for 3 diaspora occasions with out satisfactory proof of supply. An additional ₦356.38 million went to corporations whose prequalification paperwork had expired, and ₦340.83 million lined emergency procurement for the International African Diaspora Symposium with out the Bureau of Public Procurement’s required approval.Reported
Smaller gadgets comply with in the identical report: ₦165.29 million to contractors with reportedly invalid tax clearance and procurement certificates, and ₦91.90 million to 4 corporations reportedly displaying zero turnover in opposition to a ₦20 million minimal. It lists ₦137.52 million allegedly break up throughout two logistics contracts, ₦48.91 million paid to officers who weren’t the named beneficiaries, and ₦15.60 million paid to safety personnel and charged to welfare and cleansing. Money advances above the edge come to about ₦20.5 million (Dickson, 2026; Exhibit B-49). Its gadgets sum to about ₦1.386 billion, according to the totals within the different stories, and the file treats each determine as reported till the report itself is produced.Reported; Inference in remaining sentence
Three Solutions in Eighteen Days
NiDCOM answered thrice. On September 5, 2026, its media director mentioned the paperwork on its spending had been intact and would go to the statutory authorities on request. The fee, he mentioned, would reply “any questions it formally receives from the Auditor-Normal or NASS when invited.” He added that International Integrity Watch had been registered and launched in London on August 17, 2026, and questioned its motives (Taiwo-Obalonye, 2026; Exhibit C-10). On September 21, the fee mentioned that an commentary shouldn’t be a remaining discovering of wrongdoing and that the matter ought to comply with due course of (Abiodun, 2026a; Exhibit C-12).Reported
On September 23, Voice of Nigeria reported the third reply: the question “has been comprehensively responded to by the Fee,” with documentary proof despatched to the Auditor-Normal and the Public Accounts Committees (Voice of Nigeria, 2026c; Exhibit C-11). Not one of the three releases names a question answered, a sum defined or a doc filed. Inside eighteen days, the fee moved from a suggestion to reply when invited to a accomplished reply, after a report that had recorded no response to any of the 13. The document doesn’t present when the solutions had been filed or what they contained (Exhibit D-16).Reported; Inference in remaining two sentences
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International Integrity Watch requested NiDCOM, underneath the Freedom of Info Act, for its annual stories and monetary statements for 2023 by 2025, the related audit stories and administration responses, and the supporting monetary and procurement paperwork. The fee declined entry to a number of the data, citing part 12 of the Act, in accordance with the group (The Authority, 2026; Exhibit B-50). Part 12 is headed “Exemption of regulation enforcement and investigation,” and it permits a public establishment to disclaim an software for data of the varieties it lists (Freedom of Info Act, 2011, s. 12; Exhibit A-29). The group additionally mentioned it had obtained an interim police report on information misplaced in a housebreaking in July 2024.Reported; Documented in third sentence
The file holds neither the request, the refusal nor the police report (Exhibit D-21). Part 1(1) of the Act establishes the best of any individual to entry data within the custody of any public establishment, and the exemption is the exception (Exhibit A-29). A fee that claims its information are intact and can go to the statutory our bodies on request, and that refused a part of a public request underneath an exemption written for regulation enforcement and investigation, owes the general public the premise on which the exemption applies.Documented; Inference in remaining sentence
The Board the Audit Wanted
An audit commentary goes first to administration, after which to the our bodies that oversee it. NiDCOM’s Act gives for a Governing Board, and NIDO Worldwide informed the general public in September 2026 that it knew of none (Displays A-6, B-45). With out a board, the 13 observations had no inside physique between the chairman and the Public Accounts Committees to obtain them. That’s the governance hole Quantity II recorded, now with a sum connected.Reported; Inference in remaining two sentences
Counter-evidence stands with the document. The observations stay observations, NiDCOM says it has answered them with paperwork, NIDO UK and NIDO Americas requested that they be resolved by the auditors and the Meeting, and no competent authority has discovered wrongdoing in any document situated (Displays B-43, B-47, C-11, D-16).Reported
13 observations reached the Nationwide Meeting on July 17, 2026, with no administration response recorded in opposition to any of them, and the fee’s solutions got here after the diaspora pressed. By October 27, 102 days later, no public listening to on them seems within the information searched. The Public Accounts Committees ought to maintain one and publish the fee’s responses, and the Auditor-Normal ought to publish his follow-up on every commentary. NiDCOM ought to publish the solutions it says it filed and state the premise on which part 12 applies to information it calls intact. Half 14 turns to Toronto.Reported; Inference; Demand in remaining two sentences
Supply Be aware
Displays A-2, A-6, A-29, B-43 by B-51, C-10 by C-12, D-14, D-16 and D-21. Voice of Nigeria’s pages carry conflicting writer metadata and are cited underneath the outlet. The TVC Information column carries two writer names and is cited underneath the outlet as opinion. Itemized sums are from one secondary report that doesn’t title the audit doc; the first report was not situated. The 2023 occasion seems because the International Alliance Diaspora Symposium in NiDCOM’s assertion, the International African Diaspora Symposium in a single report and the International African Diaspora Summit in one other.
IVProof Docket18 information this installment depends on, linked to the originals
Class AAuthorized devices and technical specs
A-2
Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), ss. 13, 14(2)(b), 15(2), 85(2), 85(5), 88, 89.
Establishes the Chapter II obligation on govt authorities, the ethnic-equality goal in s. 15(2), the Auditor-Normal’s reporting to the Nationwide Meeting and committee consideration in s. 85, and the investigative and summons powers in ss. 88 and 89. Retrieved October 27, 2026. Carried from Quantity II, prolonged.
A-6
Nigerians in Diaspora Fee (Institution) Act 2017, s. 2 (Nigeria).
Establishes the chairman as chief govt and accounting officer, the requirement of excessive integrity, presidential appointment topic to Senate affirmation, and NIDO suggestions. Retrieved October 12, 2026. Carried from Quantity I.
A-29
Freedom of Info Act 2011, ss. 1(1), 12 (Nigeria).
Establishes the best of any individual to entry data held by a public establishment (s. 1(1)) and the heading and opening of the regulation enforcement and investigation exemption (s. 12). Retrieved October 27, 2026.
Class BContemporaneous reporting
B-43
Onje, O. (2026, October 2). NIDO UK rejects claims to talk for world diaspora, reaffirms help for NIDCOM. BusinessDay.
Establishes NIDO UK’s assertion of September 28, 2026, by Chairman Taslim Gbaja-Biamila, rejecting NIDO Worldwide’s declare to talk for the chapters and expressing continued confidence in Dabiri-Erewa. Counter-evidence. Doesn’t point out the publish. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-44
Odeyemi, J. (2026, September 21). NiDO-WW calls for NiDCOM rationalization to Auditor-Normal’s report. Each day Belief.
Establishes the NIDO Worldwide assertion and its 5 continental signatories, the report of over ₦1.3 billion in questioned transactions throughout 13 observations, the calls for, and NiDCOM’s description of the stories as a marketing campaign of calumny and blackmail. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-45
Ogunaike, A. (2026, September 21). NiDCOM audit: NIDO calls for solutions, board structure over 13 queries. The Gazelle Information.
Establishes the report’s placement in Quantity I underneath the Worldwide Audit and Liaison Division, the observations listed, the ‘No response’ entries, and NIDO’s demand that the Governing Board be constituted. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-46
Voice of Nigeria. (2026b, September 21). NIDO seeks NiDCOM motion on audit report considerations.
Establishes the transmission of Quantity I of the report back to the Nationwide Meeting on July 17, 2026, the 2023 protection, the observations, and NIDO’s calls for, together with the board, diaspora desks and voting rights. Writer metadata conflicts; cited underneath the outlet. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-47
Abiodun, W. (2026b, September 28). NIDO UK, Americas and Africa disown purported NIDO Worldwide assertion on NIDCOM audit, again Abike Dabiri-Erewa. Status Information.
Establishes the disclaimers of NIDO Americas (September 21), NIDO UK (September 28) and NIDO Africa (undated), NIDO Africa’s dispute over its chairmanship, NIDO Americas’ description of a government-facilitated unification course of, and NIDO UK’s assertion of continued confidence. Counter-evidence. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-48
Clement, P. S. (2026, September 3). 25 MDAs, varsities, others flagged in N1.34trn audit lapses. Each day Belief.
Establishes the Auditor-Normal’s transmission of the 2024 annual report on non-compliance to the Nationwide Meeting by letter dated July 17, 2026, and the referral of infractions to the Public Accounts Committees. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-49
Dickson, D. (2026, September 17). After investigation uncovered over ₦1.3bn in questioned transactions at NiDCOM, Abike-Dabiri but to grant entry to company’s price range to trace how cash was spent. Parallel Information.
Establishes, as reported, the itemized sums attributed to the auditors. Secondary website; the report doesn’t title the audit doc, and the first document was not situated. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-50
The Authority. (2026, September 16). Group seeks information on N1.4bn NiDCOM audit observations, launches accountability initiative.
Establishes, as reported, International Integrity Watch’s FOI request for 2023 to 2025 information, NiDCOM’s partial refusal citing s. 12, the ₦1.409 billion mixture, and the group’s reference to a police report on information misplaced in a July 2024 housebreaking. No particular person byline. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
B-51
TVC Information. (2026, September 21). NiDCOM, Auditor-Normal, and value of incomplete governance [Opinion].
Establishes an opinion column’s report of ‘No response’ entries in opposition to the 13 observations and of the unconstituted board. Opinion; writer metadata conflicts; cited underneath the outlet. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
Class CResponses of the topic and her fee
C-10
Taiwo-Obalonye, J. (2026, September 5). N200m expenditure: We’ll open our books to NASS, Auditor-Normal, not social media blackmail: NiDCOM. The Solar.
Establishes NiDCOM’s assertion by its media director that its paperwork are intact, that it’s going to reply the Auditor-Normal or the Nationwide Meeting when invited, and that International Integrity Watch was registered in London on August 17, 2026. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
C-11
Voice of Nigeria. (2026c, September 23). NiDCOM responds to 2023 audit queries.
Establishes NiDCOM’s assertion that the question has been comprehensively responded to, with paperwork despatched to the Auditor-Normal and the Public Accounts Committees, and that an commentary shouldn’t be a remaining discovering. Writer metadata conflicts; cited underneath the outlet. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
C-12
Abiodun, W. (2026a, September 21). NiDCOM replies purported NIDO Worldwide over audit question, says commentary not remaining discovering. Status Information.
Establishes NiDCOM’s reply questioning NIDO Worldwide’s standing, its reference to NIDO’s inside challenges, and its account of the 2023 symposium with the OACPS. Retrieved October 27, 2026.
Class DData sought and never obtained
D-14
Auditor-Normal for the Federation, Annual Report on Non-Compliance and Inner Management Weaknesses for the 12 months ended December 31, 2024, Quantity I, entries on NiDCOM. Repository: open net seek for the printed report. Searched October 27, 2026.
Not obtained. Figures and observations are taken from stories of the doc. No inference is drawn from the absence.
D-16
Any Public Accounts Committee listening to, report or discovering on NiDCOM’s 2023 observations, and the textual content of NiDCOM’s responses. Repository: open net information search. Searched October 27, 2026.
None situated. No inference is drawn in regards to the content material of the responses.
D-21
International Integrity Watch’s FOI request to NiDCOM, NiDCOM’s refusal letter, and the interim police report on information misplaced in July 2024. Repository: open net search. Searched October 27, 2026.
Not obtained. Their content material is taken from the group’s account as reported.
◆Authorized Sources and ReferencesAPA seventh version
Authorized Sources
Structure of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), ss. 13, 14(2)(b), 15(2), 85(2), 85(5), 88, 89. https://www.constituteproject.org/structure/Nigeria_2011
Nigerians in Diaspora Fee (Institution) Act 2017, s. 2 (Nigeria). https://lawnigeria.com/2019/11/14/diaspora-commission-establishment-act/
Freedom of Info Act 2011, ss. 1(1), 12 (Nigeria). https://edojudiciary.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Freedom-Of-Info-Act-2011.pdf
References
Abiodun, W. (2026a, September 21). NiDCOM replies purported NIDO Worldwide over audit question, says commentary not remaining discovering. Status Information. https://www.prestigenewsonline.com/nidcom-replies-purported-nido-worldwide-audit-query-says-not-final-finding/
Abiodun, W. (2026b, September 28). NIDO UK, Americas and Africa disown purported NIDO Worldwide assertion on NIDCOM audit, again Abike Dabiri-Erewa. Status Information. https://www.prestigenewsonline.com/nido-uk-americas-africa-reject-nido-worldwide-claim-support-nidcom-abike-dabiri/
Clement, P. S. (2026, September 3). 25 MDAs, varsities, others flagged in N1.34trn audit lapses. Each day Belief. https://dailytrust.com/?p=1947842
Dickson, D. (2026, September 17). After investigation uncovered over ₦1.3bn in questioned transactions at NiDCOM, Abike-Dabiri but to grant entry to company’s price range to trace how cash was spent. Parallel Information. https://parallelfactsnews.com/nidcom-abike-dabiri-yet-to-grant-acces/
Odeyemi, J. (2026, September 21). NiDO-WW calls for NiDCOM rationalization to Auditor-Normal’s report. Each day Belief. https://dailytrust.com/nido-ww-demands-nidcom-explanation-to-auditor-generals-report/
Ogunaike, A. (2026, September 21). NiDCOM audit: NIDO calls for solutions, board structure over 13 queries. The Gazelle Information. https://www.thegazellenews.com/nidcom-audit-nido-demands-answers-board-constitution-over-13-queries/
Onje, O. (2026, October 2). NIDO UK rejects claims to talk for world diaspora, reaffirms help for NIDCOM. BusinessDay. https://businessday.ng/information/article/nido-uk-rejects-claims-to-speak-for-global-diaspora-reaffirms-support-for-nidcom/
Taiwo-Obalonye, J. (2026, September 5). N200m expenditure: We’ll open our books to NASS, Auditor-Normal, not social media blackmail: NiDCOM. The Solar. https://thesun.ng/n200m-expenditure-well-open-our-books-to-nass-auditor-general-not-social-media-blackmail-nidcom/
The Authority. (2026, September 16). Group seeks information on N1.4bn NiDCOM audit observations, launches accountability initiative. https://authorityngr.com/2026/09/16/group-seeks-records-on-n1-4bn-nidcom-audit-observations-launches-accountability-initiative/
TVC Information. (2026, September 21). NiDCOM, Auditor-Normal, and value of incomplete governance [Opinion]. https://www.tvcnews.television/nidcom-auditor-general-and-cost-of-incomplete-governance/
Voice of Nigeria. (2026b, September 21). NIDO seeks NiDCOM motion on audit report considerations. https://von.gov.ng/nido-seeks-nidcom-action-on-audit-report-concerns/
Voice of Nigeria. (2026c, September 23). NiDCOM responds to 2023 audit queries. https://von.gov.ng/nidcom-responds-to-2023-audit-queries/
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