Nigeria’s Debt Management Office Spends N52.1million On Staff Tea In 2025
Nigeria’s Debt Management Office Spends N52.1million On Staff Tea In 2025
Records on the portal show that on August 29, 2025, a sum of N8.6 million was paid to Diamond Seasons Nigeria Limited for staff tea covering the months of May and June.
A review by SaharaReporters of the public payments portal, Govspend, has shown that the office responsible for debt management in Nigeria, the Debt Management Office spent N52.1million on tea for its staff in 2025.
Records on the portal show that on August 29, 2025, a sum of N8.6 million was paid to Diamond Seasons Nigeria Limited for staff tea covering the months of May and June.
Whiteluck Engineering Limited also received N8.8 million for tea supplied to staff of the Debt Management Office for the months of November and December 2025. The payment was made on December 31, 2025.
Another N8.8 million was paid to Sani Sadi Nigeria Limited for staff tea covering the months of September and October 2025. The payment was also made on December 31, 2025.
De-Godf Energy Limited received N8.7 million on November 12, 2025, for staff tea covering the months of July and August 2025.
Similarly, Soleilune Nigeria Limited was paid N8.7 million on June 23, 2025, for tea supplied to Debt Management Office staff for the months of March and April 2025.
For tea items covering January and February 2025, Nurasabe Nigeria Limited received N8.5 million. The payment was made on June 23, 2025.
In a related development, SaharaReporters earlier reported that a review of entries on the public payments portal, Govspend, revealed that the Nigeria Police Force under Inspector General Kayode Egbetokun spent over ₦239.4 million in 2025 on the purchase of food items, including cartons of Geisha, biscuits, Ovaltine, milk, Milo and canned baked beans.
The payments, listed under “Police formations and commands,” show multiple transactions made to different vendors for what were described as dry rations supplied to personnel deployed for security surveillance operations across various geo-political zones.
According to the portal, on June 30, 2025, Police formations and commands paid Oran Global Investment Limited ₦8.4 million for the supply of “Eighty cartoons of geisha and other items as dry ration to personnel on security surveillance operations in the north-west geo political zone.”
On November 11, 2025, the police paid Chiomstic Resources ₦19.6 million, described as “being payment for the supply of 100no cartons of ovaltine nutricious, 100no cartons of corn flakes, 103no cartons of geisha and others.”
A day later, on November 12, 2025, Police formations and commands paid Oran Global Investment Limited ₦23.2 million as payment “for the supply of 150 ctns of geisha, 100 ctns of can bake beans and dry rations items to personnel on sec. surv. operations in the north-west geo-pol. zone.”
Further entries show that on December 27, 2025, Police formations and commands paid Elasoptic Ventures Ltd ₦21.6 million, described as “ payment for the supply of 150no of cartons of geisha, 100nos cartons of can baked bean and 2” other items.
On the same day, December 27, 2025, Danlokey Systems Limited received ₦21.6 million for “ payment for the supply of 100ctns of geisha, 150ctns of can baked beans, 100 cream craker biscuit & other items.”
