{"id":60508,"date":"2025-02-04T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60508"},"modified":"2025-02-04T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T18:00:51","slug":"senate-criticizes-revenue-agencies-for-ignoring-auditor-generals-queries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/04\/senate-criticizes-revenue-agencies-for-ignoring-auditor-generals-queries\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Criticizes Revenue Agencies for Ignoring Auditor General\u2019s Queries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Senate has condemned revenue-generating agencies for failing to respond to queries raised in the Auditor General\u2019s report, particularly regarding billions of naira unaccounted for in government coffers.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Aliyu Ahmed Wadada, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, criticized the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), and Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), for ignoring multiple summonses to clarify financial irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting concerns over the CBN\u2019s handling of the Ways and Means scheme, Wadada revealed that improper interest charges had pushed the nation&#8217;s debt beyond \u20a630 trillion, with an additional \u20a66 trillion in questionable fees.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate warned that continued non-compliance could prompt direct intervention from President Bola Tinubu, reaffirming its commitment to ensuring transparency and accountability in public finance management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu The Nigerian Senate has condemned revenue-generating agencies for failing to respond to queries raised in the Auditor General\u2019s report, particularly regarding billions of naira unaccounted for in government coffers. Senator Aliyu Ahmed Wadada, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Accounts, criticized the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":60509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60510,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60508\/revisions\/60510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}