The court asked the former minister to provide details of how beneficiaries of the fund were selected and the mechanism for the payments. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has compelled the former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disasters Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, to give a detailed account of how the sum of 729 billion naira was disbursed to 24.3 million poor Nigerians for six months.The court order followed a Freedom of Information suit number: FHC/L/CS/853/2021, brought against Farouq by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP). In the …