NEWS

Online registration of procurement officers in federal procuring entities closes September 8, 2025

Daily Dispatch September 1, 2025

The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) has directed accounting officers, namely chief executives, directors general and their equivalent, of federal agencies and parastatals to ensure that the online registration of procurement officers in their respective organisations is completed on or

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Understanding BPP DG’s case for procurement lawyers

Daily Dispatch September 1, 2025

By Sufuyan Ojeifo Nigeria has never been short of lawyers. The country produces them in battalions, armed with wigs, gowns, and a fondness for quoting obscure Latin phrases that leave fellow citizens scratching their heads. What Nigeria has lacked, however, are lawyers who can save a road before it crumbles; or, rescue a power plant […]

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BPP DG pushes for procurement law specialists to tackle corruption, plug infrastructure gaps

Daily Dispatch August 29, 2025

The Director-General of the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP), Dr. Adebowale A. Adedokun, FCIPS, ACFE, has urged the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to embrace the training and development of procurement lawyers as a strategy to strengthen transparency and curb corruption in public procurement. Speaking at the 65th Annual General Conference of the NBA held in […]

NEWS

BPP, EFCC, ICPC, others, collaborate to check corruption in procurement process

Daily Dispatch April 15, 2025

Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, said that it was collaborating with Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies to ensure that the procurement process in the country was not compromised. The Bureau said it would publish a revised list of Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, that the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, could invite to observe procurement processes.