Military gets N2.3tn special funding amid security crisis
Military and paramilitary agencies received a total of N2.3tn in special intervention funding between October 2023 and September 2025, according to the latest Federation Account Allocation Committee documents obtained by The PUNCH on Monday.
The ledger shows the money was released in 23 equal tranches of N100bn each under the “Ledger of Special Intervention Programme for Nigerian Military February, 2026.”
The records from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Federation Account Department, indicate that the intervention fund operated as a transit account, with each N100bn receipt followed by a matching N100bn disbursement, leaving no balance after payments were made.
The document opened with a brought-forward balance of N100bn as of October 19, 2023. On the same date, the account recorded the first transfer, described as “Transfer from September, 2023 Allocation 1/10,” worth N100bn. That inflow was followed on November 8, 2023 by a payment of N100bn to the military.
