Nigeria, June 16 -- A confidential federal audit report obtained exclusively by The News Chronicle has unearthed a multi-billion-naira extra-budgetary expenditure at the Federal Ministry of Works' Housing Sector during the tenure of former Minister Babatunde Fashola, raising serious concerns about financial discipline and adherence to constitutional provisions.

Like water slipping through a cracked jar, the report reveals that the Ministry spent a staggering sum of N2,886,835,379.30 (two billion, eight hundred and eighty-six million, eight hundred and thirty-five thousand, three hundred and seventy-nine naira, thirty kobo) without securing the constitutional seal of the National Assembly.

This financial breach appears to run afoul of Se...