In 2024, only 21 of Nigeria’s 36 states reported any local government internally generated revenue (IGR). According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), no figures were captured for the remaining 15. Those 21 states accounted for N39.40 billion in total, with Bauchi on top at N7.50 billion and Imo at the bottom with just N72.15 million. Lagos, which led the year before with N10.49 billion, did not appear on the 2024 list at all. Local governments were granted financial autonomy in 2024. But if states still cannot account for what their councils generated under the old system, the harder question is whether autonomy will be any more transparent than what it replaced. #GetInvolved #DataofTheDay

Dear Nigerians, This Is About Your Money! When audit institutions are weak: ~Citizens suffer ~Corruption hides ~Waste increases ~Projects fail When audit institutions are strong: ✅ Better roads ✅ Better hospitals ✅ Better schools ✅ Better value for public funds We urge the President, @officialABAT, to #SignTheAuditBillNow!

The Subnational Audit Efficacy Index 2025 #Rankings tell a powerful story. ~Ekiti State ranks 1st ~Gombe & Yobe follow in 2nd place. ~Abia & Rivers rank 36th. This is more than a ranking; between these numbers lies a deeper story about transparency, oversight, and how public resources impact citizens’ lives. The question is: how do we close the gap? 🔗 Explore the full report: plsinitiative.org/sae_index/… #SAEIndex2025 #AuditImpact

🏆 #EkitiState has emerged 1st in the Subnational Audit Efficacy Index (SAE) 2025, among all 36 states in Nigeria. The award was proudly received by the State Auditor-General Mr. Victor Adeuya alongside the Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Adeoye Aribasoye, and the Chairman Public Accounts Committee Hon. Lateef Akanle, underscoring strong institutional commitment to accountability and oversight. A recognition of commitment, reforms, and results in advancing accountability and public financial management. #SAEIndex2025 #GoodGovernance

📍 PLSI is proud to unveil the first-ever Performance Audit Report conducted and published by a subnational government in Nigeria - #DeltaState! This landmark achievement represents a visible and tangible impact of PLSI's support to the Delta State's Office of the Auditor-General and the Delta State Government in strengthening modern public audit practice. Between 2022 and 2024, under our @macfound-funded project to strengthen public audit practices and accountability at the state level in Nigeria, PLSI supported five states (including Delta) through targeted institutional reforms: ~We commissioned Performance Audit Manuals. ~We trained Auditors from the five selected states on how to effectively conduct performance audit on government's policies, programs and projects. ~We built institutional capacity for results-based oversight. Today, we are proud to see the impact in Delta State. With this report, #DeltaState has set a national precedent for evidence-driven oversight and citizen-focused accountability — the very reforms PLSI has long advocated through series of policy & institutional engagements and our annual Subnational Audit Efficacy Index (plsinitiative.org/sae-indexe…), with the 6th edition set to launch in March 2026. Performance audits go beyond “how money was spent” to ask the most important governance question: Did public spending actually deliver results for citizens? As we anticipate similar milestones across other states, we commend the Auditor-General of Delta State, the entire staff members of the Audit Office, and @DSGovernment for this exemplary leadership in strengthening governance systems and advancing performance-based oversight in Nigeria. 📄 Access the Performance Audit Report: deltastate.gov.ng/wp-content… At PLSI, we will continue to work with governments and oversight institutions to ensure that public resources deliver real results for citizens. #AuditReform #PerformanceAudit #ValueForMoney #AccountabilityMatters

Local Government Autonomy without #Accountability risks Decentralizing Corruption. ‼️ #LGs are Nigeria’s closest tier of government - yet they remain the weakest. PLSI’s research, “Strengthening Accountability and Service Delivery at Local Levels in Nigeria,” examines how Local Government Councils (LGCs) are delivering on their constitutional responsibilities: primary education, healthcare, water supply, and rural infrastructure, especially after the Supreme Court ruling of July 2024, which granted full financial autonomy to local governments. Autonomy creates opportunity - but without accountability, it also creates risk. This is why PLSI has gone further. Beyond research, we have expanded the Subnational Audit Efficacy (SAE) Index (plsinitiative.org/sae-indexe…) to include Local Governments for the first time. The 2025 edition (our 6th in a row) pioneers a combined State and Local Government audit assessment, with findings set to be launched in March 2026; less than three months away. 📘 Read the report: plsinitiative.org/documents/… Local government reform must be evidence-driven, and that work is already underway. #LocalGovernmentAutonomy #SAEIndex2025 #AccountabilityMatters

PLSI kicks off participation in the development of #OyoState Open Government Partnership (OGP) Action Plan today - a critical step toward embedding openness and accountability in state governance. The process brings together representatives from across key government MDAs, alongside CSOs, private sector actors, and civic leaders in Oyo State. Our Communications Associate -@SundayTaiwo_TST- is on ground, representing PLSI’s Executive Director, @olusegunelemo, who also serves as Co-Chair of the Oyo State OGP. thread..

In 2025, PLSI showed up with evidence, engagement, innovation, and scale.✨🙌🏾 Every number reflects intentional work to ensure public resources deliver public good. None of this would have been possible without YOU. PLSI appreciates the communities we serve, our development partners and donors, institutional collaborators, media partners, and civic allies for their continued support, trust, and shared commitment to accountability. As we close the year, we recommit to one goal: Making accountability the norm, not the exception. #2025 #ImpactStory #HappyNewYear #2026

Year-in-Review: Our Communications Associate, @SundayTaiwo_TST, reflects on what 2025 meant for PLSI - and for Nigeria’s accountability ecosystem. He shared, in this @CivicHive’s Close-of-Year Learn with Civic Hive series, how 2025 has been a defining year for public audit advocacy in Nigeria. Thank you, Civic Hive, for amplifying civic voices. Onward to 2026. #LearnWithCivicHive #LWCHSpotlight #CivicImpact #HappyNewYear

“Yesterday, the @NigeriaSenate concurred to the #FederalAuditServiceBill passed by @HouseNGR in October of 2023. Now we have the #AuditBill passed by the two chambers of @nassnigeria, to be transmitted to the President for assent.” -Hon. Bamidele Salam (@bamidelesalamBS), Chairman @housepac_ng speaking on the panel at PLSI’s side event today 18th December 2025 at #CoSP11 in Doha, Qatar. PLSI urges immediate transmission of the Bill to the President and timely assent by the President, to repeal the pre-independence (1956) Audit Law the @oaugf currently operate with. @INTOSAI_IDI @uncaccoalition @UNODC @UNODC_Nigeria #UNCAC #UnitedAgainstCorruption

Princess Chifiero, Anti-Corruption Project Officer at @UNODC_Nigeria declaring PLSI’s side event open at the ongoing #CoSP11 in Doha, Qatar. In her address, delivered on behalf of the UNODC Nigeria Country Representative, she highlighted the critical role of oversight institutions and partnerships between governments, international bodies, and civil society in translating global anti-corruption commitments into tangible national and subnational impact. This shared vision reinforces our work in strengthening accountability frameworks that connect audit, oversight, and citizen engagement to improved governance outcomes; ensuring public resources truly serve citizens. Cc: @uncaccoalition @UNODC @OAuGF @housepac_ng #UNCAC #UnitedAgainstCorruption

With support from @OpenSocietyAfr, we are delighted to welcome you to Day 1 of the two-day Masterclass on Peace Communication and Resilience Building, aimeding at strengthening community and grassroots-focused radio stations and media actors to produce fact-driven, solution-oriented, and conflict-sensitive stories that support peacebuilding, local accountability, and community resilience. To kick start this timely conversations for the day, most especially at the fragile security and safety situation in Nigeria, the Dataphyte's Founder, @jayangbayi, gave a warming opening remark, recognizing the role of communicators, strategic actors, and broadcasters in preventing exclusion, countering division, and promoting dignity and peace among Nigerians, across various communities, faith and ethnic groups. He also urged participants to emulate ethical and data-driven media practices to help strengthen Nigeria democracy, and use their various platforms to demand fairness, justice and safety of the public, as well as create an open space of co-creation for state and non-state actors to enhance development outcomes. #PCPS #PeopleCentredPublicSafety #Dataphyte #MediaLiteracy #FactDrivenReporting #DataForDevelopment

🗣️🗣️ @BudgITng Calls for Holistic Budget Reform as FG Defers 70% of 2025 Capital Projects to 2026. Dear Nigerians, the Federal Government has decided, through the @PlanningNG, to defer the implementation of 70% of capital projects initially appropriated in the 2025 fiscal year to 2026. What does this mean? Thread! Press Statement #AskQuestions

Our Executive Director, @olusegunelemo, alongside our Communications Associate, @SundayTaiwo_TST has officially kicked off PLSI’s participation at the 11th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (CoSP11) in Doha, Qatar, following an insightful Civil Society Preparatory Day. For PLSI, #CoSP11 represents a critical platform to bridge global anti-corruption commitments with Nigeria’s accountability realities. Throughout the week, our delegation will engage in high-level plenaries, attend diverse side events, network with global partners, exchange evidence-based insights, and explore collaborative pathways to deepen our work and amplify impact back home. #UNCAC #COsP11 #UnitedAgainstCorruption

The PLSI delegation is live at #CoSP11 in Doha, #Qatar! Today, we are actively participating in the Civil Society Preparatory Day for the Eleventh Session of the Conference of States Parties (CoSP11), joining colleagues from across continents to align on the issues, observer rights, and engagement pathways that shape civil society influence at the conference. The sessions today, with UNODC representatives, government delegates, and thematic working groups; provide critical grounding for the week ahead as we prepare to amplify evidence, strengthen anti-corruption commitments, and spotlight the centrality of public accountability in global governance reforms. Cc: @olusegunelemo @SundayTaiwo_TST #UNCAC #COsP11 #UnitedAgainstCorruption

Dear Nigerians! The Nigeria Accountability Summit 2025 BLUF Communiqué is here - which outlines the immediate steps needed to close policy gaps, strengthen institutions, and make public resources work for Citizens. It is a roadmap co-created by reformers across government, civil society, academia, and the private sector - all committed to building a more accountable Nigeria. Explore the Full Communiqué ➝ nigeriaaccountabilitysummit.… See the Full NAS 2025 Report ➝ nigeriaaccountabilitysummit.… These are the reforms we must pursue together. These are the changes citizens deserve. CC: @NGRPresident @NigeriaGov @nassnigeria @NGRSenate @HouseNGR @housepac_ng @Fmohnigeria @FedMinOfJustice @FinMinNigeria @OAuGF @NAS_SummitNG @NRGInstitute @PPDC_ng #NigeriaAccountabilitySummit #NAS2025 #PolicyReform #AccountabilityMatters

Download the BLUF Communiqué ➝ nigeriaaccountabilitysummit.… Read the Full NAS 2025 Report ➝ nigeriaaccountabilitysummit.… #NAS2025 #Accountability #GovernanceReform

Relive the opening charge from our ED, @olusegunelemo at the Nigeria Accountability Summit 2025.✨ An all-important Summit mainly about people. About systems that must work. About a Nigeria where good policies become real improvements in people’s lives. @NAS_SummitNG Watch the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=qV6jyo4-… #NAS2025 #GoodGovernance #InclusiveEconomicGrowth

In 7-minute, relive the key moments from the Nigeria Accountability Summit 2025!📍 A global convergence of leading CSOs, policymakers, development partners, reform advocates, active citizens and sector experts for two days of deep conversations and bold ideas. From plenary debates to breakout sessions, the Summit delivered powerful insights, meaningful networking, and clear pathways for strengthening accountability and governance in Nigeria. This is what collaboration for national reform looks like @NAS_SummitNG! #NAS2026 promises to be BIGGER - anticipate! #NAS2025 #InclusiveEconomicGrowth #AccountablityMatters

Is your state spending more on long-term projects or just keeping things running? 💰 #StateofStates2025 Index D shows how states split resources between capital investments and operating expenses. Leading the ranking are Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Taraba, prioritising infrastructure and human capital development. At the other end are Ogun, Kogi, Cross River, Plateau, and Ondo, which focus more on day-to-day operations than on long-term growth. From this ranking, what does your state prioritise? Access the complete report here: budgit.org/post_publications… #StateofStates2025 #SOSat10 #GetInvolved