Nigeria, April 20 -- Titled: "World Bank flags hidden spending system diverting 41% of Nigeria's earnings", a news item by News Scroll", an online publication. On Wednesday, 15th April 2026, a damning story appeared in the Guinness Book of Records, on the Tinubu administration's handling of the country's revenue earnings. It is not in doubt that the World Bank report on the alleged diversion of 41% of the country's earnings since 2023 has brought to the fore what many Nigerians suspected since President Tinubu was sworn in as President on May 29, 2023.

A number of reasons can be put forward to substantiate the widely held belief that Nigeria's resources were either being misappropriated or outrightly stolen by the President Tinubu admin...