The Auditor-General's 2024 Report Is Cited at N1.34 Trillion in Federal Lapses. The Itemised Figures Published So Far Add to About N257bn
Nigerian outlets have reported the Auditor-General's non-compliance report for 2024 at a headline of over N1.34tn. Re-adding every category actually named with a figure in that coverage produces roughly N257bn, about a sixth of the total, and no outlet has quoted the Auditor-General's letter using the N1.34tn figure directly.
The Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation transmitted its Annual Report on Non-Compliance/Internal Control Weaknesses in MDAs for the Financial Year Ended 31 December 2024 to the National Assembly on 17 July 2026, over the signature of Auditor-General Shaakaa Kanyitor Chira. The two-volume report was published on the Auditor-General's own site on 13 August 2026. Nigerian outlets began reporting its contents from early September, with coverage continuing as recently as 21 September 2026.
Multiple outlets attach the same headline figure to this report: over N1.34 trillion in financial irregularities and control weaknesses across federal ministries, departments and agencies, drawn from what Chira's transmission letter is reported to describe as 31 separate categories of infraction.
Re-adding the itemised figures that these same outlets published by name produces a smaller number. The procurement-related subset reconciles cleanly: N76.96bn in irregular contract awards across 29 MDAs, plus N19.91bn in contracts awarded in violation of due process across 15 MDAs, plus N27.252bn for unexecuted or poorly executed jobs, sums to N124.12bn, matching a procurement-specific figure reported separately. That part of the document checks out internally.
The remaining named categories, excess cash advances (N1.403bn), unretired cash advances (N2.74bn), unaccounted payments (N6.73bn), under-remitted internally generated revenue (N1.169bn), revenue not remitted to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (N8.089bn), unsubstantiated payments (N3.27bn), payments lacking supporting documents (N37.081bn) and payments made without pre-payment audit (N39.17bn, dominated by a N36.74bn finding against the National Theatre Commission), add to approximately N99.65bn. A further reported item, N33.751bn in electronic cash transfers to 3,295,207 households the National Cash Transfer Office could not fully document, brings the running total of everything found named and quantified to roughly N257bn.
That is the sum of every figure this research could find attributed by name, with an MDA count and a naira amount, to the FY2024 report. It is well under a quarter of the N1.34tn headline that recurs across coverage of the same document. No outlet found quotes Chira's transmission letter using the N1.34tn figure directly; it appears as an unattributed aggregate. Whether that aggregate is stated in the report itself or was calculated by a news desk from categories not yet individually reported could not be established. Chira's letter reportedly names 31 categories of infraction in total; only around ten could be traced here to a specific figure. The Auditor-General's past reports do sometimes carry a single outsized category, the 2021 non-compliance report included a nearly N2.9tn unrecovered-revenue finding against one agency alone, so a document-internal explanation for the remaining roughly N1.08tn gap is plausible, but nothing found here identifies what it consists of in the 2024 report specifically.
What this rests on
The primary document's existence and current hosting location were confirmed directly (HTTP 200, correct filename and content type), but the file itself, roughly 295MB for Volume I alone, could not be downloaded or parsed within this research. All itemised figures come from secondary reporting across multiple outlets covering the same document, cross-read and re-added by hand rather than trusting any single outlet's stated total.
What this does not establish
Whether N1.34tn is the Auditor-General's own stated total or a media-assembled aggregate; no source quotes Chira using that figure directly. The content of roughly 21 of the 31 infraction categories not found named in any article searched, which would need to account for the remaining gap. Whether any MDAs the House Public Accounts Committee separately recommended excluding from the 2026 budget process overlap with agencies named in this report. No wrongdoing, diversion or criminal conduct is alleged or implied by this finding; the gap identified is between a headline number and its public itemisation, not evidence of missing money.
What we did ourselves
This report re-added, by hand, every itemised figure with a named category and MDA count that could be found in public reporting on the Auditor-General's FY2024 report, and set the resulting total, about N257bn, against the N1.34tn headline that recurs across the same coverage. No outlet reviewed had performed or published this reconciliation.
Sources for this report
(B) Office of the Auditor-General for the Federation, Annual Report on Non-Compliance/Internal Control Weaknesses in MDAs for the Financial Year Ended 31 December 2024, Vol. I and II, published 13 August 2026 at oaugf.ng; transmission letter dated 17 July 2026, Auditor-General Shaakaa Kanyitor Chira.
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