Account for ‘N26bn missing’ — CSOs tell Tijani, USPF secretary

A conjugation of 25 civilian nine organizations has urged the Minister of Communications, innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, and the Secretary of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), Yomi Arowosafe, to publically explicate the whereabouts of N26.9 cardinal arsenic flagged by the September 2025 Auditor-General’s report.

The telephone is contained successful a communique on Tuesday signed by Bilal Galadima and James Ogenyi connected behalf of the Coalition of Civil Society for Transparency and Accountability, pursuing its exigency gathering successful Abuja.

The CSO claimed that the yearly study published by the Auditor-General of the Federation raised concerns implicit the alleged disappearance of ‘N26.9 billion’ successful nationalist funds nether the Universal Service Provision Fund, USPF.

It claimed that the study elaborate unaccounted expenditures, unremitted nationalist funds, irregular declaration awards, and payments for services not rendered, pointing to superior breaches of nationalist trust, demanding an immediate, independent, transparent and full-scale probe by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s authorities into each transactions of the USPF arsenic flagged successful the Auditor-General’s report.

Warning that nonaccomplishment to code the allegations with urgency and transparency volition magnitude to a tacit endorsement of impunity, the Coalition vowed to mobilise Nigerians for a wide protestation on Tuesday if the min...