A high court in Abuja has issued an arrest warrant for Sadiya Farouq, Nigeria's former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, after she failed to appear for arraignment on charges of fraudulently diverting social security funds. The court also ordered the arrest of Bashir Nura Alkali, the ministry's permanent secretary, who similarly did not appear; both had previously missed a December 2025 hearing despite their lawyers pledging to produce them. The case, brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC — Nigeria's main anti-corruption agency), centres on the misuse of funds from social welfare programmes that were suspended by President Bola Tinubu shortly after he took office in 2023 pending fraud investigations.