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A fake presidential council that carried a title, a director-general, an office inside the Presidential Villa complex and even a line in the national budget has forced the Federal Government to confront an uncomfortable question: how many other fictitious bodies are buried in the machinery of state? The Federal Executive Council has now ordered…
Adeniyi Adeyemi, the detained head of a disputed presidential investment council, is fighting back against accusations that he invented the fake federal agency out of thin air. His legal team insists that key state institutions actively approved, funded, and housed the body over an extended period. The unfolding scandal exposes alarming gaps across Nigeria’s administrative…
A parliamentary committee has issued a strict 48-hour ultimatum to federal ministries, departments, and agencies stalling its investigation into a phantom government body. The House Ad-hoc Committee investigating the illicit creation and operational history of the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council declared Thursday as the final deadline for recalcitrant civil servants. Committee Chairman Yusuf Gagdi…
A disputed agency that lawmakers say never legally existed has forced the Nigerian state to account for itself in real time, with the House of Representatives on Tuesday handing defaulting government offices a 48 hour ultimatum to produce documents and officials in a probe that has now drawn in two ministers, the National Security…
The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation on Monday drew a firm line between themselves and the Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, telling federal lawmakers that neither institution created, funded nor staffed the body now at the centre of one of the year’s…
The House of Representatives opens a formal inquiry today into how a council that the Federal Government insists never legally existed secured more than N1.3bn in the 2026 Appropriation Act, yet the two men at the heart of the controversy have not been called to testify, raising early questions about the reach and credibility…
Weeks of evasion ended for Adeniyi Adeyemi on Tuesday when operatives of the police Intelligence Response Team tracked the self styled Director General of the disputed Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council to a hideout in Osun State, only hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered his arrest. The swift sequence of events…
A bench warrant now hangs over Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self styled Director General of a council the Presidency insists never existed, after he failed to appear at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday for an arraignment that has stalled five separate times. Justice Mohammed Umar issued the order following an…
The forgery trial of Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self styled Director General of a council the Presidency insists never existed, stalled again on Tuesday after the defendant failed to appear at the Federal High Court in Abuja, leaving prosecutors weighing an application for a bench warrant. Adeyemi was billed to take his plea…
The man at the centre of one of the most audacious impersonation scandals to hit the Nigerian public service in years has broken his silence, insisting he is not on the run even as the Nigeria Police Force moves to place him before a judge on forgery and impersonation charges. Adeniyi Adeyemi, who styled…