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Use of Safe Schools funds

Status
No final report
Assembly
Senate
Opened
18 November 2025
Assembly term
10th National Assembly (2023–2027)
Committee
Ad hoc committee
Sum at issue
Not stated
Subject
Spending and misuse of funds
Without a report for
358 days

On a motion by Senator Abdullahi Yahaya (Kebbi North), after gunmen attacked Government Girls Secondary School, Maga, in Kebbi State, killing a vice principal and abducting 25 students, the Senate called for an investigation of the use of Safe Schools Initiative funds. An ad hoc committee chaired by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu began work in December 2025 and summoned the Ministers of Finance, Education and Defence. Kalu said over 1,680 schoolchildren had been kidnapped since 2014.

TETFund

What the record shows

  • 18 November 2025
    Probe opened.
  • 3 December 2025
    The ad hoc committee, chaired by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, held its first sitting and summoned the Ministers of Finance, Education and Defence.
  • 21 July 2026
    On a motion by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the Senate extended the mandate of the ad hoc committee to TETFund, NELFUND, UBEC, the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation and NSIPA, and gave it three more weeks.
  • As of 11 November 2026
    No final report of this probe has been found on the public record.

Opened more than 120 days ago, and no final report of the committee has been found on the public record. Interim reports and hearings are shown where known. Know of a report, hearing or outcome missing here? Send a correction.