By Secrets Reporters
Lagos House is the Lagos State lodge in Abuja. Its renovation was approved at N5 billion in the 2026 budget. In the first quarter of 2026, the spending records show N6.25 million released against the renovation, which is 0.1 per cent of the vote. In the second quarter alone, N2.19 billion went out. By June 2026, N2.19 billion, which is 43.9 per cent of the full-year vote, had been released for the renovation of the lodge. The Governor's Lodge Annex A and B in Abuja carried a further N467.46 million for rehabilitation and N140.7 million for water collectors and plumbing works.
The Office of the Governor itself was approved N139.29 billion for 2026. By the end of June, N45.04 billion of the vote had been released. The capital vote of the office is N66.58 billion. No project rows, no descriptions and no locations for the capital vote appear in the quarterly reports or in the appropriation law's detail blocks. N14.64 billion of the capital vote was released in the first half of the year, which is 22 per cent of the vote, and the public record contains no line stating what the releases built, bought or paid for.
The overhead vote of the Governor's Office is N43.23 billion, with N13.52 billion released by mid-year. The records of the Deputy Governor's office and the Chief of Staff's office name welfare, entertainment, travel and publicity lines. The Governor's Office overhead carries no named sub-lines in any published document. A separate line called Other Expenditure was approved at N3.97 billion and released N3.85 billion by June, and no published document describes what the line contains.
The Chief of Staff's office was approved N11.89 billion and released N9.47 billion in the half-year, which is 79.7 per cent of its full-year vote. Its overhead vote was 94.6 per cent spent by mid-year, and its own Other Expenditure line, approved at N3.6 billion, was 99.1 per cent exhausted. The records name lines of the Chief of Staff's office: N1.16 billion for upkeep of government quarters and offices, N384.87 million for monitoring and evaluation, N210 million for publicity, N171.28 million for security services and N127.73 million for entertainment and hospitality.
The Deputy Governor's office carries an overhead vote of N2.94 billion. A single line, Welfare Package and Special Services to the Public, takes N2.23 billion of the vote, which is 76 per cent of it. The Deputy Governor's capital vote of N4.25 billion for the reconstruction of the Round House complex released N31.2 million in six months, which is 0.7 per cent of the vote.
The state's formal security vote is N596.22 million for the year, held under the House of Assembly, and it released N250 million in the half-year. The Governor's Office drew N45.04 billion in the same period.
Fifteen headline budget lines were checked against the public record of announcements, groundbreakings, inspections, commissioning reports and site evidence by SecretsReporters. Ten exist or are verifiably underway. The Lekki-Epe Expressway rehabilitation is under way, with contractors on site in January 2026 under a 64-day traffic diversion. The Blue Line Phase 2, from Mile 2 to Okokomaiko, is under active construction. The drainage programme is documented, with dredging of 28 primary channels approved after the June 2026 floods and works referenced at Ikota River, Ogombo and Gbetu-Iwerekun in September inspections. The 280-bed Ojo General Hospital stood at 85 per cent completion in August 2026. The new Shomolu specialist hospital is rising beside the existing general hospital, confirmed by an inspection in September 2026. The new Massey Children's Hospital on Lagos Island was almost completed by October 2025. The NYSC permanent camp at Agbowa is in active land acquisition, with compensation paid to affected residents in September 2026. The Idi-Oro produce hub is commissioned and trading, and the Ketu-Ereyun central food hub is at an advanced stage. The Timberville sawmill relocation is complete, with 204 sheds, 204 sales offices and 260 flats handed over. The Stakeholders' Consultative Forum, budgeted as a capital project across all five divisions, holds as a recurrent annual event carried as capital expenditure.
Five of the fifteen lines carry announcements and no works behind them in the public record. Omi-Eko was launched in October 2025 at 410 million euros, with no physical construction seven months later by the project's own admission. The Red Line Phase 2 was contracted in February 2024 and carries no construction trace in 2026, with the line still ending at Oyingbo. The Assembly's permanent legislative quarters carry a budget of N55.4 billion and N500 million spent on the fence, with no groundbreaking and the site still advertised as proposed. The State Infrastructure Intervention Fund carries N39.99 billion in releases with no attributable works and no project list. The Project Development and Resilient Cities line carries N23 billion with no project connected to it in the public record.
