The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has disclosed that in 2024 it recovered N24 billion linked to ghost workers' pensions and also identified about 900 suspected ghost workers.
This was made known on Thursday by the ICPC Chairman, Musa Aliyu (SAN), during the delivery of his keynote address at the 2026 Economic Confidential Lecture and National Spokespersons Award, organised by Image Merchants Promotions Limited.
He said, ““We now secured the income of about 900 ghost workers, whose names we published in papers. We spent one year, one single year, on ghost workers.
“When they insert their names, you will see their name in the payroll. You will see their email. But when you check the account number, you will see the name of the person. So, that is how these things have been done.
“Because, you know, once there is a ghost worker, there is ghost pension, there is ghost mortgage, there is ghost housing fund, there is ghost health insurance.
“In 2024, we recovered over N24bn in ghost workers’ pensions."