Vanguard· 6h ago· 1 min read
By MAHMUD JAFAR
The easiest way to rile Nigeria on the matter of public finance is to throw a number of endless zeroes at us and call it missing money. Nobody needs to explain the ledger from which it was drawn, or the accounting convention that produced it, or whether the sum describes cash that once sat in a vault. The figure alone is enough. Within an hour it has travelled through the group chats, been converted into hospitals unbuilt and roads untarred, and hardened into an article of faith no clarification can dislodge, and what follows is an instant screaming match in which the loudest participants are frequently those least equipped to read a balance sheet. This was the pattern that greeted the claim that N210 trillion had gone missing from the books of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, a figure roughly four times the size of the national budget, tossed around…
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