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Cost Reduction Administrative Streamlining For Sustainable and Honest Governance (CRASH).
A Capstone Project under the School of Politics Policy and Governance.

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

Before you hear that a contract has been awarded for a project in your community, decisions have already been made about how public money will be spent.

That makes the process of awarding and managing these contracts important long before anyone sees the finished road, school, health centre or other public project.

When that process is manipulated, public money can be lost and the people the project was meant to serve can bear the cost.

This is why Nigeria has rules governing how government contracts are planned, awarded and managed.

The Public Procurement Act 2007 sets out those rules and defines the responsibilities of the institutions involved in the process.

@OIseniyi breaks down the law behind government contracts, the institutions responsible and the safeguards built into that process.

Watch the video!

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[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝.

In 2025, 𝐍26.16 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 was budgeted for 191 critical water and sanitation projects across Cross River and Kano States. Only 𝗡5.15 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 ever left the treasury. That leaves a staggering 𝐍21 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 deficit in approved funding that never reached the communities.

This funding failure has direct, severe consequences. In Nigeria, roughly 73% of the diarrheal and enteric disease burden is tied to unsafe WASH access.

Our latest policy brief, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐚, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐩𝐬 exposes how money meant to improve access to clean water and proper sanitation is stuck in government bureaucracy.

We found:

🛑Cross River: only 7 out of 72 budgeted WASH projects received funding.

🛑Kano: Just 10 out of 119 WASH projects got funded.

Communities cannot drink a budget document. The release and implementation of allocated resources is fundamental to protect families and communities who pay for this gap with their health and lives.

We’ve tracked the taps. Now, it’s time to demand the Naira.

🔍Explore the findings: https://t.co/OjlX6wScOK

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[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

In Q1 and Q2 2026, 34 states consistently published their Budget Implementation Reports.

Across the country, Benue, Kogi, Adamawa, Bauchi, Jigawa, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Ekiti and Lagos were among the states that made their reports available in both quarters.

Osun and Rivers had no available BIRs in either quarter.

This also marks a slight decline compared with Q2 2025, when 35 states published their BIRs.

Consistent publication matters because it gives citizens the information they need to follow public spending, understand how government uses public funds, and ask questions about what they find.

Did your state make the list?

Find the full breakdown in the Half-Year BIR Status and Comparative Insights: 2026 vs. 2025.

Read the full report: https://t.co/70p0zuQSKt

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[Vahyala Kwaga @Thegrey8]

Unfortunately, the level of entrenched interests in that percentage means nearly zero incentive to change it. Also, I believe this is why our federalism feels more like a unitary system; the top is too “heavy”

[Tracka @TrackaNG]

URGENT🔴: Lanto Community Is Cut Off as Flooded Road Leaves Over 5,200 Residents Stranded

Dear @GovWike, Sen @IretiKingibe,

Residents of Lanto Community in Kuje Area Council, Abuja, are in an emergency. The community has been battling the absence of a functional access road and bridge for more than 10 years. And as the rain intesifies, they are constantly landlocked with children unable to go to school, traders unable to access the markets etc.

Farmers cannot move their produce, local businesses cannot operate normally and families are stranded.

And this is not a one-day problem. The floodwater can remain for three to four days before it recedes, leaving the residents landlocked each time the rains come.

We urgently call on your offices and the @FMWNIG @FedRoadsNGR to provide Lanto an access road and bridge.
#FixOurRoads

[Tracka @TrackaNG]

Disbursement without Implementation🛑

According to the Osun state Q4 2025 BIR, N47m was disbursed for the Construction of 4 Classrooms At Iwo Muslim Comprehensive Junior School, Iwo LGA, Osun State.

We tracked and report that this project has not been done.
Despite a 100% disbursement to this project, we found dilapidated blocks of classrooms in the school and no new block of classrooms has been constructed.

We call on @osunsubeb, the implementing agency to provide the public with details of how funds disbursed to this project was used.

[Olúṣeun Onìgbìndé @seunonigbinde]

Fifteen years ago, a few of us sat in a small room in Lagos asking one question. Why should a document that decides whether a child gets a classroom or a clinic gets drugs be written in a language only a handful of people can read?

That question became BudgIT.
We had no money and no proof that any of it would work. What we had was a conviction that public money belongs to the public, and that citizens deserve to see it in plain language. We built the first budget visuals on borrowed time and stubborn hope.

Today BudgIT turns 15.

In that time we have turned thousands of pages of fiscal documents into things people can actually understand. We have sent Tracka officers into communities to check whether the borehole that was paid for actually exists, and to sit with citizens who had never been told that a project in their ward carried their name and their money. We have published on debt, revenue, subsidy, and state finances when it was uncomfortable to do so. We have argued with governments and we have worked with governments. Both were necessary. The work now lives in Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Senegal, and the idea travels further than we do.

What I am most proud of is not any single report. It is that budget conversations moved from technical rooms into newsrooms, classrooms, town halls, and timelines. A generation of young citizens now treats fiscal accountability as ordinary civic behaviour. That shift is the real product.

Thank you to every person who has worked at BudgIT and who have backed our work at scale. Thank you to the journalists who ran with our data, the funders who trusted an unproven idea, the community members who showed up for a tracking meeting on a market day, and the public servants who quietly opened doors. Thank you to my cofounders and to everyone who shared an infographic when that was all we had.

The work is unfinished. Debt service still crowds out development. Too many subnational budgets still reveal less than they hide. Money still leaks in the last mile, where citizens feel it most. Fifteen years in, transparency alone is not enough.We continue to persist in service to our communities.

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

15 years of simplifying budgets, driving civic impact and pushing innovation!!!

But none of this happens without active citizens like you.

So, as we mark 15 years today, we have one question for you.

How did BudgIT help you understand, question or act on public money?

Maybe you read a budget for the first time.

Maybe you discovered what your state was spending.

Maybe you used our data to ask a question.

Whatever your story is, we want to hear it.

Tell us your #MyBudgITStory. Post your story and tag us 👏

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

#15of15

Today, it is easy to see how much was budgeted for a project, check whether the project was completed or find out how government is spending public money.

It’s easy to forget that a decade and half ago, public finance data was simply inaccessible.

Fifteen years ago, BudgIT started with an idea: that citizens should be able to understand how public money is planned, allocated and spent.

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#BudgITAt15 #GetInvolved #AskQuestions #FollowTheMoney

[projectcrash @projectcrash_]

For 15 years, BudgIT Foundation has helped make public finance understandable, accessible, and actionable, proving that budgets should not be documents reserved for a few, but public tools that empower everyone.
Happy 15th Anniversary, BudgIT Foundation!
#budgitat15

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

You may know BudgIT today, but do you know the story of how we got here?

15 years ago, @seunonigbinde and @josephagunbiade had an idea.
An idea that began in Nigeria, crossed borders and grew into a Pan-African organisation working across six countries, with more than 80 people behind the work.

But how does an idea travel this far?

Our 15th anniversary impact story looks back at some of the moments that shaped BudgIT and the work we do today.

And as we celebrate where we are today, we’re thinking about where we go from here.

This is just a glimpse. Stay tuned for the full story. 🎥

#FollowTheMoney #GetInvolved #BudgITAt15 #AskQuestions

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

If I were a state governor, I would have my own Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control. I would, of course, collaborate with NADFAC but would not be at their mercy while the health of my people suffers.

I am Ezemmuo. I know things.

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

Our 15th Anniversary X Space has been rescheduled. 🚨

Please save the new date:

🗓️ Monday, September 14, 2026
⏰ 5:30 PM (WAT)
📌 BudgIT X Space

We apologise for any inconvenience this change may cause and appreciate your understanding.

We’ll be glad to have you join us on September 14 for this important conversation on the future of civic action.

Register to join us 👉 https://t.co/Dn4P8ycava

See you then! 🚀

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[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

Working remotely in Nigeria comes with a special kind of burden.

You can have the job, the laptop and the internet, and still not be able to work because there’s no electricity.

Since electricity tariffs were raised for Band A customers in 2024, Nigerians have been paying a premium for more reliable power supply. But outages still happen. And for someone whose income depends on being able to work, an outage can quickly become another bill.

For Izu, when the national grid collapses, as it often does, she has to spend up to ₦11,000 just to keep a workday going.

Swipe to read Izu’s experience.

This is the #CostOfBeingANigerian.

Has unreliable electricity ever cost you money, work or an opportunity? Tell us what happened.

Send your name, age, location, gender and experience to [email protected].

#CostOfBeingANigerian #AskQuestions

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

₦21.9 trillion.

That's the net FAAC shared in 2025.

In 2017, it was ₦5.64 trillion.

At the state level, the jump was even bigger. States went from ₦4.8 trillion in revenue in 2022 to ₦15.5 trillion in 2025.

So what happened to all that extra money?

Our analysis found that states spent more on capital projects. But they also spent heavily on salaries and running government, while debt repayments continued to take a sizeable chunk of their resources.

Meanwhile, expenditure share on development priorities like education fell.

We break down how state governments spent in this seeming season of plenty in our report, Nigeria Economic Reform: What Has Changed Across Nigeria’s States.

Read here 👉 https://t.co/ubhwEt7y2t

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

We’re live! 🚀

Today promises to be exciting as we explore Nigeria’s energy transition from several important angles: the role of gas, renewable energy, climate finance, investment and the policies needed to move from ambition to implementation.

We have an incredible array of speakers lined up to unpack these issues across two engaging panel sessions and a fireside chat.

Our first panel, Nigeria's Energy Transition Plan:
Betting on Gas as a Transition
Fuel, will examine the role of gas in Nigeria’s energy transition, bringing regulatory, governance and industry perspectives to the conversation.

The second panel, Climate Finance and The Role of Renewable Energy in Energy Transition, will explore the financing landscape for renewable energy and the investments needed to advance Nigeria’s energy transition.

We’ll also hear from our speakers during the fireside chat, Frontiers for Climate Financing.

📍 Sustainable Energy Summit 2026
Theme: Financing Nigeria’s Energy Future: Closing the Gap Between Policy Commitment and Public Investment

📅 Wednesday, 19 August 2026
⏰ 11:30 AM (WAT)

Join us live via Zoom:
https://t.co/YzegH4AeCL

Watch on YouTube: @BudgITNg

#SES2026 #GetInvolved

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

We’re all set for a conversation that matters, and we want you to be part of it.

Join us live on YouTube 👉 BudgITNg

#SES2025 #GetInvolved

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

We’re LIVE🚀

Plug in! https://t.co/bfLM8Eu5M9

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

🗣️BudgIT Turns 15: Africa's Leading Civic-Tech Organisation Marks a Decade and a Half of Fiscal Transparency and Citizen Empowerment

BudgIT, Africa's leading civic-tech organisation and public finance think-tank, is marking its 15th anniversary, celebrating fifteen years of simplifying public budgets, tracking government spending, and empowering citizens across Africa and beyond to demand transparency and accountability. 

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PRESS STATEMENT

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[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

“If you are a taxpaying Nigerian, it’s your right to know how the government is spending the money it is taking from you.”

Our Country Director, @Thegrey8, joined Arise TV to discuss Nigeria’s fiscal transparency following the US Department of State’s assessment that Nigeria failed to meet the minimum fiscal transparency requirements in 2025.

Speaking on Nigeria’s fiscal transparency, our State Fiscal Transparency League (SFTL) Q1 2026 report found that only 11 states had active e-Procurement portals with updated procurement information. 20 states had portals but did not publish procurement data, while 5 states had no e-Procurement portal at all.

These gaps show why access to clear and timely information on public money matters. Hear from him on the state of fiscal transparency in Nigeria.

🎥 Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/ZrYb4mJqjg

Read our SFTL Q1 2026 report: https://t.co/gopjApwGGc

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