{"id":172495,"date":"2025-08-05T08:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips"},"modified":"2025-08-05T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:15:47","slug":"adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips","title":{"rendered":"Adeleke denies spending N3.1bn on foreign trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has dismissed as false and misleading recent media reports alleging that his administration spent N3.1 billion on foreign trips between January and June 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, on Monday, the governor reaffirmed his commitment to fiscal transparency and accountability, insisting that the figures being circulated have been misrepresented to paint a distorted picture of his administration\u2019s travel spending.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Adeleke clarified that the funds in question were not allocated solely for his personal travel but covered the entire state government\u2019s training and capacity-building activities, both local and international, undertaken by more than 100 agencies within the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContrary to the misleading narrative, the stated amount represents a near full-year training budget for Osun State\u2019s ministries, departments, and agencies,\u201d the statement noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes costs for transportation, accommodation, feeding, and other logistics for commissioners, permanent secretaries, directors, agency heads, and staff of tertiary institutions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement emphasized that many of these training programmes were scheduled in the first half of the year to avoid potential disruptions from political activities expected to begin in the second half of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It also pointed out that Governor Adeleke has often used a family-owned private jet to cut down on the government\u2019s travel costs, citing his recent visit to the United States as an example of his personal commitment to reducing public expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>Olawale described the allegation that the governor personally incurred N3.1 billion in travel costs as \u201cmischievous and unfounded,\u201d urging the public to disregard the reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has dismissed as false and misleading recent media reports alleging that his administration spent N3.1 billion on foreign trips between January and June 2025. In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Mallam Olawale Rasheed, on Monday, the governor reaffirmed his commitment to fiscal transparency and accountability, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":172493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[594,254],"class_list":["post-172495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adeleke","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adeleke denies spending N3.1bn on foreign trips - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has dismissed as false and misleading recent media reports alleging that h ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Adeleke denies spending N3.1bn on foreign trips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has dismissed as false and misleading recent media reports alleging that h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-05T07:39:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-05T09:15:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754372854.691719.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"608\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Adeleke denies spending N3.1bn on foreign trips\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-05T07:39:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-05T09:15:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips\"},\"wordCount\":279,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754372854.691719.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adeleke\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/adeleke-denies-spending-n3-1bn-on-foreign-trips\",\"name\":\"Adeleke denies spending N3.1bn on foreign trips - 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