Presidential Amnesty Programme spends N6.8bn on laptops

The Office of the Special Adviser to the President on the Niger Delta allocated at least N6.8bn for goods and services under the Presidential Amnesty Programme between May and December 2025. The majority of this expenditure, amounting to N5.47bn, was directed towards the procurement of 4,000 laptops for scholarship students, sourced from ten suppliers.

Payments were documented across 50 transactions on the GovSpend platform, which tracks Federal Government expenditures. Additionally, N495.38m was spent on 4,200 bags of rice for stakeholders under the programme.

The total identifiable payments, including tax remittances to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, reached N6.8bn. Notably, the laptops were procured at a unit price of approximately N1.36m from various suppliers, with significant contracts awarded to companies such as Punwon Investment Limited and Adinkra Finity Consulting Services.

The data indicates a focus on laptop procurement during this period.