The Nigerian government has expelled about 24,000 workers from its finance after a review requested by President Muhammadu Buhari uncovered the common hirelings did not exist.

The move has permitted the government to spare about $11.5 million from its month to month wage bills.

The review started in December utilizing biometric information and a bank confirmation number, or BVN, to recognize the record holders into which government compensations were being kept.

This uncovered the names of a few specialists accepting compensations. 

In a few cases, people were getting paid from different sources.

Akanbi said the account service had so far checked the accounts of exactly 312,000 government labourers. Going ahead, the accounts would expect "intermittent checks and use PC review procedures. This will help to avert further mishandling of the finance framework. Work force costs as of now take up more than 40 percent of Nigeria's aggregate government spending. 

Nigeria is positioned 136 out of 167 nations on the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2015.

A precarious fall in worldwide oil costs has exacerbated Nigeria's monetary emergency.

Since taking office in May, Buhari has pledged to recuperate government income plundered by degenerate authorities. A study distributed in 2014 demonstrated that the Philippines economy lost $132.9 billion as a result of unlawful government spending in the previous five decades - cash that has never been returned and generally could have offered the devastated country's economy some assistance with growing.