FIJ
The presidency has earmarked N215,816,088 for the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President (OCEAP). This is contained in the 2024 appropriation bill President Bola Tinubu submitted to the National Assembly.
This office, FIJ has learned, has only had one short-term occupier since Goodluck Jonathan stopped being president in 2015. Its official website, www.oceap.gov.ng, leads nowhere, as FIJ found after testing on various browsers across a range of networks.
Listed as the 15th item on page four of the 2,290-page appropriation bill, the OCEAP has zero personnel provision. A personnel cost is allocated for staff salaries and expenses related to occupiers of positions in that office.
At zero, it means no one is getting paid for occupying the office. However, the entirety of the allocation is earmarked for overhead and capital expenditure at N76,146,337 and N139,669,751 respectively.
