{"id":223450,"date":"2026-02-11T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-payroll-irregularities-document-reveals-findings-that-led-osun-govt-to-hire-audit-firm\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:08:14","slug":"nigeria-payroll-irregularities-document-reveals-findings-that-led-osun-govt-to-hire-audit-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-payroll-irregularities-document-reveals-findings-that-led-osun-govt-to-hire-audit-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Payroll Irregularities &#8211; Document Reveals Findings That Led Osun Govt to Hire Audit Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The report, titled, &#8216;Report of the Osun State Staff Audit, Appointment and Promotion,&#8217; predates the government&#8217;s decision to engage Sally Tibbot Consulting Limited, a private forensic firm later contracted to conduct a comprehensive payroll audit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">A staff audit exercise commissioned by the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osunstate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Osun State Government<\/a><\/strong> shortly after the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke assumed office in 2022 has resurfaced amid an ongoing controversy over alleged payroll irregularities in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The report,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602100568.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report, titled, &#8216;Report of the Osun State Staff Audit, Appointment and Promotion,&#8217; predates the government&#8217;s decision to engage Sally Tibbot Consulting Limited, a private forensic firm later contracted to conduct a comprehensive payroll audit. A staff audit exercise commissioned by the Osun State Government shortly after the administration of Governor Ademola Adeleke assumed office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7513,15274,10003,7559,4357,17030,7771,15960,257,4687,393,8991,8851,14326,254],"class_list":["post-223450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-audit","tag-document","tag-findings","tag-firm","tag-govt","tag-hire","tag-irregularities","tag-led","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-osun","tag-payroll","tag-reveals","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}