Digital reforms curbing payroll fraud, corruption in Nigeria’s public service – BPSR DG

Digital reforms in Nigeria’s public sector are strengthening monetary accountability, bettering authorities expenditure monitoring and serving to to curb payroll fraud within the nation’s civil service.

The Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR), Mr. Dasuki Ibrahim Arabi, acknowledged this in Lagos on the 2026 Nigeria Annual Business Analysis Conference organised by the International Institute of Business Analysis, Nigeria Chapter.

Arabi recognized three key digital devices driving transparency in public administration.

According to him, the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), and the Bank Verification Number (BVN) stay the pillars of ongoing anti-corruption reforms.

Explaining the influence, Arabi mentioned IPPIS, which manages payroll and data of public servants, has enabled authorities to watch worker data and detect irregularities together with a number of wage funds.

“With IPPIS, once you have a number for salary payment, no other salary will be paid using that number on that platform,” he mentioned.

He additionally highlighted GIFMIS, which hyperlinks authorities establishments and repair suppliers to a central monetary administration system, as a serious reform for bettering expenditure controls, “while BVN makes it easier to identify suspicious financial transactions.”

“The essence of that is to fight corruption, and even if we have not stopped it 100 per cent, at least people are conscious that somebody is watching,” Arabi mentioned.

The BPSR boss mentioned the bureau is advocating moral adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) consistent with Nigeria’s e-Government Master Plan and National Policy on AI.

He emphasised cyber safety and security as crucial pillars for sustainable digital governance.

He additionally advocated for digitalisation of coverage growth, implementation and monitoring.

He nonetheless famous that regardless of good points from digitalisation, weaknesses in coverage growth and implementation stay a serious problem within the public service.

Stakeholders have lauded Arabi’s efforts in remodeling the general public service saying on the remedial stage as the present director-general of BPSR, he has a predetermined operational technique in taking fast management of explosive points in administration to reinforce effectivity and growth no matter whose curiosity is at stake.