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By Gift ChapiOdekina
The House of Representatives Committee connected Foreign Affairs has summoned the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, alongside the Heads of Nigeria’s overseas missions, to look earlier it regarding the utilization of funds released to the missions successful 2025.
In a missive dated July 24, 2025, and signed by its Chairman, Hon. Oluwole Oke, the Committee invoked its powers nether Sections 88 and 89 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), demanding elaborate fiscal records from the missions to guarantee accountability successful the absorption of nationalist funds.
Nigeria’s overseas missions person agelong faced fiscal challenges, resulting successful inadequate consular services to Nigerians overseas and allegations of corruption among ngo officials.
Earlier successful 2025, the Committee began investigating a declaration ungraded involving the alleged mismanagement of $2 cardinal intended for the renovation of Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations’ residence successful New York.
According to the letter, the missions are expected to taxable respective cardinal documents, including:
Approved budgets from 2024 to 2025; Budget show reports for the aforesaid period; Details of peculiar involution funds released betwixt 2018 and 2025 and however they were applied; and Staff nominal rolls for some home-based and locally recruited employees.
“The Honourable Minister is kindly requested to bring the contents of this missive to the attraction of each Heads of Missions,” the correspondence stated.
Meanwhile, different papers dated July 3, 2025, signed by the Director of Funds connected behalf of the Accountant-General of the Federation, revealed that the Tinubu medication had released a full of $54 cardinal to enactment the operations of Nigeria’s 103 embassies and precocious commissions.
The breakdown showed that $46.14 cardinal was earmarked for overhead costs, $9.58 cardinal for unit expenses, and $282,829 for different overhead allocations.
Speaking with journalists successful Abuja, Hon. Oke commended President Bola Tinubu for the timely fiscal intervention, noting that it would assistance revive the country’s overseas missions and heighten Nigeria’s planetary image.
“We commend the President for his involution and committedness to reviving our missions. This motion volition spell a agelong mode successful projecting a affirmative representation for Nigeria,” Oke said.
“We besides impulse the missions to relationship for however these funds person been utilised. Transparency and accountability are cardinal to bully governance, and Nigerians merit to cognize however their resources are managed.”
A breakdown of the allocations showed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received $5.89 million, the Embassy of Nigeria successful Moscow got $1.96 million, portion Rome and Vienna received $2.82 cardinal and $1.09 million, respectively.
The Athens ngo received $1.04 million, Tel Aviv $1.8 million, Addis Ababa $1.92 million, the Jeddah Consulate $1.48 million, the Dubai Consulate $1.26 million, and Madrid $1.23 million, portion the embassies successful Tehran and Abu Dhabi each received $1.18 million.
The Honorable Oke clarified that the Committee’s determination was not a witch hunt, but a measurement toward ensuring liable governance and due stewardship of nationalist funds.
“We are not retired to witch-hunt anyone,” helium said. “Our work is to guarantee that authorities spending reflects transparency, accountability, and worth for Nigerians astatine location and abroad.”
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