FG Agencies Spend N50.4bn On Foreign Travel In 3 Years

Federal ministries, departments and agencies spent over N50.41bn on foreign trips, air tickets, estacode, offshore allowances and overseas training between June 2023 and June 19, 2026, an analysis of government payment records has revealed.

The expenditure was traced to 1,967 transactions involving 129 federal institutions, based on data from GovSpend, a public expenditure tracking platform developed by civic-tech organisation BudgIT.

The analysis covered six GovSpend transaction datasets containing 9,305 entries. After 1,001 duplicate records were removed, 8,304 unique payments remained.

A further 6,337 transactions were excluded because their descriptions did not provide suf...