{
  "id": 17499559,
  "title": "Amnesty Programme spent N6.8bn on laptops, others – Report",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/amnesty-programme-spent-n6-8bn-on-laptops-others-report-17499559",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-01T00:22:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Punch",
    "slug": "punch",
    "url": "https://punchng.com/amnesty-programme-spent-n6-8bn-on-laptops-others-report/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Between May and December 2025, the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on the Niger Delta disbursed a total of N6.8 billion for various goods and services under the Presidential Amnesty Programme. According to data from the open-government transparency platform GovSpend, a significant portion of this expenditure was allocated to procuring laptops for scholarship students. The program spent N5.47 billion on purchasing 4,000 laptops from 10 separate suppliers. Additionally, N495.38 million was allocated for 4,200 bags of rice intended for stakeholders under the program, while approximately N814.9 million was remitted to the Federal Inland Revenue Service in various taxes and duties. The total payments, including both contract sums and tax remittances, amounted to N6.8 billion. Laptop procurement dominated the disbursements, with two batches of 200 laptops each purchased in July 2025 from Altitude Global Links Limited and Barbolad Global Services Limited, and eight batches of 400 laptops each procured between October and December 2025 from different suppliers. The program was established in 2009 by late President Umaru Yar'Adua to provide amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta, who had surrendered their arms within a 60-day window. The initiative, originally set to run for five years until 2014, has now been ongoing for over 16 years and has received at least N700 billion in public funds over the past decade.",
  "summary": "The Presidential Amnesty Programme spent N6.8bn on goods and services between May and December 2025, with N5.47bn used to procure 4,000 laptops. Read More: https://punchng.com/amnesty-programme-spent-n6-8bn-on-laptops-others-report/",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}