Public spendingSINGLE_SOURCEACCESSIBLE

GovSpend (BudgIT)

Federal government daily payment transactions from the Open Treasury Portal, with named beneficiaries (organisations and individuals).

Open the source

Publisher: BudgIT Foundation
Country: Nigeria
Source type: CIVIL_SOCIETY_REPORT
Years: 2020 to present (BudgIT); exact range of the live dataset not measured
Format: CSV, XLSX, XLS, ODS and JSON downloads by date range
Access: Public download; no login shown
Priority: High
Last checked: 2026-10-04

Evidence

Payment records name recipients, which makes GovSpend the strongest lead for linking government payments to companies. BudgIT's 2020–2024 analysis covers 323,792 transactions.

Audit evidence link

Limitations

Federal level only. Beneficiaries are free-text names without company registration numbers, so matching needs careful entity resolution. No licence located. A payment record is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Ingestion plan

Seek a data-sharing agreement with BudgIT before bulk use; until then link and cite. Cross-check against the Open Treasury Portal as the primary source.

Expected records, as stated: Not measured — source discovery only; no underlying records ingested.

Terms of use

Reuse licence, robots policy and automated-access permissions have not yet been established. Link to the publisher; do not redistribute or automate collection until reviewed.

Possible joins

Beneficiary name
Paying agency
Payment date